8th King County Executive Dow Constantine of Washington

11/09/2019

County Executive Dow Constantine

c/o Office of the King County Executive 

King County Chinook Building

401 5th Avenue, Suite 800

Seattle, WA  98104

Dear County Executive Constantine,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, social justice, environmental protection causes, and ethics reform. In these subjects, I like to learn the need the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, have ethics reform to help reduce corruption in government or public officials, and many others. State Auditor Galloway, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as 8^th King County Executive to be very inspiring to me.

In your current role as 8^th, King County Executive, I truly appreciate on how you are a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, supporting funds for women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy, and expressing the need to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination in order to help protect minorities, women, and people with disabilities’ from being discriminated.  On the economy, I like on how you push for more jobs-training programs to help train youth including workers to develop work-skills to help prepare for the work-force and pushing to increase the minimum wage to help assist minimum wage workers afford to live.  Your approach to improve education reform like support funds to improve special education to help students with disabilities get accommodations they need to learn, provide funds to schools to help expand on basic classes, arts, history, and science to help make education diverse, and work with schools to find ways to implement after school programs to provide students with help on their assignments from tutors. Supporting funds for renewable energy resources to help reduce addiction to oil with gas, encouraging businesses to use energy-efficient products to reduce high energy cost while reduce pollution, and expanding funds to improve city services to help clean parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use is common sense to protect the environment. Another thing that I like about your work as King County Executive is how you express the need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants including refuges from oppressive countries, support drug treatment programs to help drug-users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse, and push for ethics reform like ban on gifts to staff members of the King County Executive from lobbyist or lobbying groups to reduce corruption.

County Executive Constantine, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have a trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Your role as 8^th, King County Executive gives me motivation to continue to learn history including social justice.  My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, have ethics reform to help reduce corruption in government or public officials, and many others.

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference for society. I’m very proud on how you are working hard to support civil rights, protect the environment from pollution, push for education reform, and advocate for social justice, and many others. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability and to continue to learn history including social justice, environmental protection, and ethics reform. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard on my disability, and inspiring me. Please continue to work hard to make a great difference and please continue to advocate for common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Honorable Malia M. Cohen from San Francisco, California

10/30/2019

Honorable Malia M. Cohen

c/o California State Board of Equalization

455 Golden Cate Avenue, Suite 10500

San Francisco, CA  94102

Dear Honorable Cohen,

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 to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, support social justice to make communities safe, and many others.  Honorable Cohen, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisor from the District 10^th and as current Member of the California Board of Equalization from the 2^nd District to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisor from the District 10 from 2011-2019, I truly appreciated on how you were a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, supporting funds for women including minorities businesses to help compete in the economy,  and working with other members of San Francisco Board of Supervisors to expand on laws to combat against hate-crime to help protect minorities including people who are different.  On the economy, I liked on how you supported expanding on jobs-training programs to help train youth including workers to develop work-skills to help prepare for the work-force and advocated for the need to raise the minimum wage to help assist minimum wage workers afford to live.   Supporting funds for renewable energy resources to help reduce addiction to oil with gas, encouraging companies including industries to use energy-efficient products to help reduce addiction to oil with gas, and working to expand funds to help improve city services to help clean parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use is common sense to protect the environment from pollution.  To improve education, I like on how you support funds to improve special education to help people with disabilities get accommodations they need to learn, push for after school programs to provide students with help on their assignments from tutors, and expand on literacy programs to help youth including adults develop reading skills or improve on comprehension.  In January 2019 , I was amazed on how you made history on becoming the first African American woman to become Member of the California Board of Equalization from the 2^nd District.  In your current role as Member of the California Board of Equalization from the 2^nd District, I like on how you are a continuous strong supporter of civil rights, push for environmental protection, and advocate for education reform.  Also in your role as Member of California Board of Equalization from the 2^nd District is how you support improving tax filing or business registration online to help make it easier for people who want to start their business to file application, support expand funds to help repair minorities communities to help repair them, and push for tax-credits on small businesses including local businesses to help them hire people to work for them along with be part of the community.  Another thing that I like about your work as Member of California Board of Equalization from the 2^nd District is how you are an advocate for ethics reform like ban on gifts to public officials including staff members from lobbyist or lobbying groups to reduce corruption, continuous supporting programs to help people who are low-income or people who are homeless get the care they need, be a vigorous supporter of immigration reform to help protect immigrants including refugees from being oppressed. Also I like on how you are a strong advocate for criminal justice reform like  supporting drug treatment programs to help drug users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse,  working with law enforcement to expand resources to help victims of crime or victims of domestic violence get help on dealing with their trauma, and support the need for laws to help reduce police misconduct like body cameras on law enforcement.

Honorable Cohen, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Also your role as former Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisor from the District 10^th and as current Member of the California Board of Equalization from the 2^nd District gives me motivation to continue  to learn history including social justice. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, and the importance to improve social justice to improve communities. In August 2019, I enjoyed the Pistahan Festival where I got to learn about Filipino culture and see you give a speech about the need to improve diversity along with a strong emphasis on making social justice stronger.  Also I enjoy meeting you at the event.  My letter is a gift to you for inspiring me and to wish you a Happy Birthday for December 16. 

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference for society. I’m very proud on how you support civil rights, protect the environment, advocate with support social justice, and many others. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability and to continue to learn history including social justice.  Also I enjoy meeting you in SF during the Pistahan Festival.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make  great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to make a great difference for society.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

In August 2019 I got to meet Honorable Malia M. Cohen who is  current Member of the California Board of Equalization from the 2^nd District  during my trip to San Francisco, California

Honorable Tom Vislack from Iowa

11/13/2019

Honorable Tom Vilsack

c/o U.S. Dairy Export Council

2107 Wilson Blvd. Suite 600

Arlington, VA  22201-3061

Honorable Vilsack,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in studying history, environment, and social justice. In these subjects is that I want to learn about the importance of strengthening Civil Rights to help protect people who are different from discrimination, the need to protect the environment from pollution by having environmental protection with implementing renewable energy or alternative energy, find ways to improve agriculture to help assist farmers with improving food safety for people, a strong need for government reform to reduce corruption, and many others.  Secretary Vilsack, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as 40^th Governor of Iowa and as 30^th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

When you were Governor of Iowa from 1999-2007 I liked on how you were a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, supporting funds for women including minorities businesses, and  expressing the need for an equal rights amendment to help protect women from being discriminated based on gender even though it didn’t get passed in the state legislature. To improve the economy, I like on how you push for jobs-training program to help train youth including workers to develop work-skills to help prepare for the work-force and advocate for the need to raise the minimum wage to help minimum wage workers afford to live.  Pushing for conservation to protect public lands from being disturbed, supporting biofuel including  renewable energy resources reduce our addiction to oil with gas, and encouraging businesses including industries to use energy efficient products to help reduce high energy cost while reduce pollution is common sense to protect the environment. To improve agriculture I like on how you had commitment to help farmers get assistance in order to help them during a farm crisis, improve regulations to help protect people from risk of foodborne illness, and expand on programs to help train farmers including agriculture staff along with food inspectors to help teach people about different ways to reduce food poisoning or how to make consumer products safe.  Another thing that I like about your work as Governor of Iowa was how you pushed for drug treatment programs to help drug users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse and try to push for funds to help improve health care for people with disabilities including people with autism to get treatment.  In 2009, I like on how you accepted President Obama to nominate you to serve as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to help him improve our country.  On your role as 30^th Secretary of Agriculture from 2009-2017, I like how you teamed up with President Obama with the First Lady Michelle Obama to work on a campaign called Let’s Move where it worked to help educate with encouraging children to eat healthy with improving their health.  I liked on how you worked with Congress and President Obama to help pass Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act to find ways to combat against child hunger with obesity, having more awareness about nutrition, and helping make schools meals safe for them to eat with providing children to get a school meal.  Another thing in your role as Secretary of Agriculture I like your commitment to find ways to improve food safety to reduce a chance of illness of food with improving public safety, supporting conservation to make forest, public land, and water to make outdoor recreation improve with making agriculture jobs with farmers get access to clean land with water, and working to improve Civil Rights by combating against discrimination against minorities’ groups.

Honorable Vilsack, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability. Your role as 40^th Governor of Iowa and as 30^th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture gives me motivation to continue to learn history including social justice. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, improve agriculture to improve food safety, and many others. 

I strongly believe that you made a great difference in public service. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to support civil rights, protect the environment, push for agriculture reform, and many others. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, and continue to learn history including social justice. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to work hard to make a great difference and continue advocate for common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick