Martin Sheen

                                                            9/15/2014

Martin Sheen

P.O. Box 6022

Malibu, CA 90264

Dear Mr. Sheen,

My name is Matthew Winick and I enjoy watching you act in movies and also my favorite T.V. Show The West Wing. My favorite movies that you played in are Wall Street, The Departed, Catch Me If You Can, The American President, and Bobby. Besides watching you play in movies I really like when you narrated Eyewitness series and JFK. Your narrations really help motivate me to get interested to learn more about science and history. Mr. Sheen, history is my favorite subject because I am interested to learn how the world works, learn from mistakes, learning the strong need for Civil Rights to end discrimination for people who are different, and understand how government can help benefit society with programs or job training programs. Through out my student life from middle school through college I enjoy taking world history, American History, and other history classes. The West Wing really helped me get interested in Presidential history because of how you portrayed as President Jed Bartlet with some great achievements. I really enjoy watching The West Wing because I enjoy your acting, understand how a presidential administration works, and how to deal with Congress. As a fan of the West Wing I enjoy learning about different characters personality with their political stance and watching all episodes of season 7.  This show got me really interested to study about different U.S. President’s work, finding if they had achievements, and visit Presidential libraries to learn more about their background.  Also the show helped me understand that government can help benefit society. As an American with a mix race including a learning disability with Autism I am proud to have been benefit well from different President like President Obama through the Stimulus package which helped put me in a job training program, The ACA under Obama helped me with health care, President Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Bush sr., Clinton, and Obama have improve Civil Rights with continuing to work on helping protect minorities, gender, people with disabilities, and people with different preferences from being discriminated, and The American With Disabilities Act helped benefit me to get accommodations in education with having programs to help my disability with improving my comprehension under President George H.W. Bush.

Mr. Sheen thank you for taking the time to read my letter, helping me get inspired to learn history, and making The West Wing a great show with great acting and helping me understand more about presidency. Mr. Sheen, you have helped make a difference in my life by getting me motivated to learn more about President’s history and give me confidence by learn how the government can help benefit people like me through legislation. I wish you well for you for the future, acting, and continuing your activism to help people who are different from discrimination with helping people understand the benefit of government with the need for reform.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Governor Mike Beebe of Arkansas

12/1/2014

Governor Mike Beebe

State Capitol

500 Woodlane Street

Suite 250

Little Rock, AR 72201

Dear Governor Beebe,

My name is Matthew Winick and I have a strong interest in studying history, political science, the criminal justice, some business, and many others. Governor Beebe I find your work as Governor of Arkansas to be very interesting.   Your ideas with achievements for example helping children with special needs like programs to help end hunger, help students with disabilities get an education, assist children who are in poverty, and improve health care coverage for them really makes a difference and your work really inspires me.  Governor Beebe, I have Autism with a learning disability and I am proud to have you advocating to have programs to help people with disabilities get the care they need.  Having a disability is hard because I have trouble comprehending on learning new subjects and get teased by other people. I have benefited well from government programs like The Americans With Disability Act (ADA) because it helped me get an education without being discriminated by having accommodations to help me learn like having a T.A. or a tutor work with me on subjects, have extra time on exams with homework, special education programs helped me get the help I need with getting accommodations, and use a recorder to record lectures to help improve my note taking. Also the ADA helped me get protected under Civil Rights. Even though I benefited well from government programs, I still find that it is hard to continue working to overcome my disability. However, people like you, Governor Jack Markell, Lincoln Chafee, Dannel Malloy, Jay Inslee, Martin O’Malley, Steve Bullock, and Peter Shumlin are making a difference to help people with needs and assist people who need help being protected from discrimination.  Your advocating to helping people with disabilities with these governors really help me feel confident because you and many of them are working to make a future, our country, and history a better place.  

Besides your work to help people with disabilities your work as Governor of Arkansas really amazed me.  For example reducing your state grocery tax to help balance the budget with helping protect the middle class from a regressive tax on groceries, working on education reform like helping children with special needs by using programs, having alternative pay for teachers with more programs to get teachers to help educate people in rural areas where they struggle to learn, and having mentoring programs to help people be motivated in getting an education. Your education reform idea is a common sense idea and makes a great example of what we need today. Even though it might be expensive however I like your ideas with belief that education is important for the future and to help people get the education with care they need.  From a person with a disability with my history perspective I strongly believe that you are making a great difference with your advocating and your ideas for education reform. Someday I thinking about running for Governor for Michigan and I was wondering if you have any advice for me about Governor’s roles or how they should do policy work. I want to wish you well on continuing your role as Governor of Arkansas. When you retire I want you to continue advocating to help people with special needs including people with disabilities and education reform.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Governor John A. Kitzhaber of Oregon

1/2/2015

Governor John Kitzhaber

Attn: Citizen’s Representative

160 State Capitol

900 Court Street

Salem, Oregon 97301-4047

Dear Governor Kitzhaber,

My name is Matthew Winick and I find your work on improving healthcare to help people afford getting the care they need, protecting the environment by promoting renewable energy with conservation, and creating a coalition group to help fix the economy very inspiring to me. I have a strong interest in studying history, government, and the criminal justice. I enjoy studying these subjects because I want to learn not to repeat the same mistakes, have reforms to improve society, understand the need to protect the environment from pollution by promoting renewable energy with conservation, advance on Civil Rights to end discrimination for people who are different, and have checks and balances in the criminal justice system to protect people’s civil liberties when dealing with reducing crime.  I plan on using what I learn from these subjects especially history to teach people about the need to create new ideas of reforms to make society better with the ideas that I mentioned. When you were legislator in the Oregon State Senate I was amazed when you sponsor the Oregon Health Plan, state healthcare system to help people who are poor or who can’t afford health insurance get the benefits with medical care they need.  Your commitment to work on making healthcare available to people who can’t afford insurance is a great achievement and it really inspires me because I feel confident that there are people who are advocates for health care reform like you. Even though I don’t live in Oregon I truly appreciate your activism to make healthcare affordable for people who can’t afford it.

Besides your work on healthcare I find your work as Governor of Oregon to be very inspirational to me with your work to protect the environment by advocating to protect the environment while maintaining conservation.   While you were Governor I was amazed by your approach on protecting the environment like restoring watershed health in order to protect people’s health by having water as a drinking source and protecting salmon fish from be endangered or threaten. Also I like your other approach by advocating for alternative energy with renewable energy to protect the environment while having a sustainable life with jobs. Another thing I like about your work, as governor is your support for people who are different like minorities, gender, people with disabilities, and people with different preferences to be protected from discrimination. I myself have Autism with a learning disability and I am inspired by your work with activism to help people with disabilities and other people who are different to be protected from discrimination in jobs, education, public places, and Civil Rights. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning new subjects at a pace and get teased by other people. However, I have benefited through the ADA because it helped me get an education by having accommodations to help learn different subjects like extended time on exams, use a recorder to help me improve on note taking, and have special education including Learning Support Services help me work on comprehension with tutors. Also The ADA expanded more on Civil Rights for me to be protected from discrimination. Even though I have benefited from the ADA I still have trouble with a disability, but I am proud to have many people who work hard being an activist like you to help people with disabilities.

Governor Kitzhaber, I am truly inspired by your work to help people who can’t afford the healthcare they need, protect the environment by promoting renewable energy, advancing on more rights to protect people from discrimination, and restoring lands to protect wildlife while maintaining people’s life from harm. Your approach is common sense. From a history perspective in my opinion I believe that your ideas are making a great difference. Also I agree with you on making environment better by using renewable energy with restoring land to protect wildlife and maintain people’s way of life from pollution or harm, and promoting equal rights to end discrimination. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter and best luck on continuing your role as Governor of Oregon.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Mayor Virg Bernero of Lansing, Michigan

11/3/14

Mayor Virg Bernero

9th Floor City Hall

124 W. Michigan

Lansing, MI 48933

Dear Mayor Bernero,

My name is Matthew Winick and I had been a volunteer on your campaign for governor for the 2010 Michigan gubernatorial election. Mayor Bernero, I really had the pleasure working on your campaign because I agree with your ideas to help Michigan like funding money for education, help small business from being heavily taxed, improve public safety, and help Michigan minimum wage workers like me. I felt sorry that you were aggressively attacked negatively by Rick Snyder and other special interest groups. Snyder’s attack made me get interested to be active on your campaign and to vote for you. Even though you lost the election, however I am proud that you had the courage to advocate for a better middle class, better education, improve Civil Rights, and more things to help minimum wage workers when most political parties ignore people due to being influenced by special interest groups with lobbying.

Mayor Bernero, your issues and your campaign really helped me get inspire and to learn history. I believe that history is a good thing for society to remind ourselves the need to improve society by reforming the criminal justice system to have checks and balances when dealing with crime an protecting people’s civil liberties, the need to help the poor including low income, minimum wage workers, and middle class with getting jobs, a need for job training programs to help train workers for the economy, create jobs in our country to reduce losing jobs overseas, improve Civil Rights to protect people who are different, and to better protect the environment from pollution by using renewable energy with environmental protection. These ideas and your ideas are mainstream and not an ideology issue. I plan for my future to use my knowledge of learning history to make a world a better place.

Thanks for your hard work on advocating for a better future for Michiganders like me, taking the time to read my letter, and having the confidence to run for governor. Even though you lost, from my perspective on studying history I believe that you made a great difference for our state and that your ideas will live on for the future, mine, and many generations. I wish you well as your role as Mayor of Lansing and continue on advocating for all Michiganders like me for a better future and new ideas to help our state.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

 

Mike Henry "Family Guy"

9/23/14

Mike Henry

“Family Guy”

Fox Television Animation

5700 Wilshire Blvd.

Suite 325

Los Angeles, CA 90036

Dear Mr. Henry,

My name is Matthew Winick and I am a huge fan of watching Family Guy and The Cleveland Show.  Mr. Henry, I really enjoy you voicing Cleveland Brown, Peter Griffin’s best friend.  Also I think you really do a great job teaming up with Seth MacFarlane on making Family Guy and The Cleveland Show a great comedy to watch and having different parodies with analogies.  In 2009, I was excited to hear when they created The Cleveland Show starring you as Cleveland Brown in his hometown Virginia. The Cleveland show was really great and I enjoy the characters that you interacted with like Donna, Roberta, Rallo, Cleveland Jr., Lester, and Holt. I enjoy watching every episode of  The Cleveland Show. When they cancelled the show I was sad because I really enjoy how you help me understand more about Cleveland Brown’s origin with his background story. However I was happy that you had the chance to have your own show and that you really made The Cleveland Show fun to watch. Also I’m glad that your character Cleveland Brown is coming back to Family Guy.  I’m sure that you will do fine in the future on making comedy fun along with continuing making Family Guy fun to watch with your character Cleveland Brown. Mr. Henry, I am inspired by you and Seth MacFarlane to enjoy comedy with jokes. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make Cleveland Brown to be a funny character, and making comedy fun with humor. I wish you well for the future in your comedy acting roles and wish you good luck on making season 13 in Family Guy fun, funny, and great humor to watch.

Sincerely,

Matthew  Winick