Honorable Bill Bradley from New Jersey (former U.S. Senator from New Jersey)

 

1/10/2025

Honorable Bill Bradley

220 Central Park S., Apt 36A

New York, NY 10019

Dear Honorable Bradley,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history including social justice. In these subjects, I like to learn the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, expand on social justice to improve communities, and many others. Honorable Bradley, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as U.S. Senator from New Jersey to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1979-1997, I truly appreciated on how you were a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights and supporting funds for women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy. Also on  Civil Rights, I really liked on how you joined Democrats along with some moderate Republicans to work with to support the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to help protect people with disabilities from being discriminated in education including public places, voted in favor of Civil Rights Act of 1991 to help expand laws to help protect minorities, women, and people with disabilities form being discriminated in employment services, and advocating for the need to reduce racial profiling in law enforcement resources to help protect minorities.  Supported The Clean Air Act of 1990 to help reduce air pollution by requiring industries to burn clean fuel along with promote research in biofuel for vehicles, supported funds for renewable energy resources to help reduce addiction to oil including gas,  and pushed for funds to help protect public lands, water resources including national parks from being polluted are great ways to protect the environment. Also when you served in the U.S. Senate I liked on how you worked on legislation to help children who develop lead related health problems get treatment, advocated for the need to increase the minimum wage to help assist minimum wage workers afford live, and heavily addressed the need for campaign finance reform to reduce dark money from lobbing groups or PACS or the wealthy from corrupting elections. After you left public service, I like on how continued to advocate for civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights, support the need for universal health care reform to help people with pre-existing conditions or who can’t afford get health insurance, and strongly advocate for increase in ethics reform including campaign finance reform to reduce corruption.

Honorable Bradley, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I have trouble communicating my thoughts, and get teased.  The ADA of 1990 that you supported helped benefited me getting some education and to be protected from being discriminated.   In education, the ADA of 1990 helped give me accommodations like extra time on exams, have a tutor or a T.A. help me work on different assignments,  use a recorder or education software to help assist on improving my comprehension, and special education resources helping me set up accommodations in elementary school through my community college.  In May 2014, I was able to get an associates degree at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan.my main focus in Associates Degree is history, government, some business, some science, and criminal justice.  Also your strong commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspire me to work hard on my disability.   I enjoy reading some of your articles about the need to strengthen civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights, protect the environment, the strong need for campaign finance reform including ethics reform, and many others. Your role as former U.S. Senator from New Jersey  motivates me to continue my strong interest in learning history.  My future goal is to someday work in history to help emphasize the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment, and have ethics reform with campaign finance reform to reduce corruption. 

I strongly believe that you made a great difference when you served in public service. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to support civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights, protect the environment, advocate for government reform, and many others.   The ADA of 1990 that you supported really made a great difference where it helped benefited me in getting some education.. You have really inspired me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, and continue to be motivated to learn history. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making great achievements in public service and inspiring me. Please continue to advocate for common sense ideas 

Sincerely,

Matt  Winick