Former U.S. Attorney G. Douglas Jones

6/27/2017

Attorney G. Douglas Jones

c/o Jones & Hawley P.C.

2001 Park Place North, Suite 830

Birmingham, AL  35203

Dear Attorney Jones,

My name is Matthew Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning history, social justice, and public policy.  In these subjects, I like to learn the need to make Civil Rights stronger, have criminal justice reform to protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others.  Attorney Jones, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama to be very inspiring to me.

In 1997, I was very proud on how you accepted President Bill Clinton to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama.  When you served as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997-2001, I was very proud on how you were a strong supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, prosecuted people who committed hate-crimes to help protect minorities including people with disabilities, and expressed the need to end racial profiling in the judicial system including law enforcement agencies to help protect minorities from being oppressed.  Another thing on Civil Rights was on how you worked with other law enforcement agencies including forensic teams to work on prosecuting 2 members of the KKK for their role in the 16^th Street Baptist Church bombing which killed 4 girls. Also on that case that I liked was on how you worked with the victims of the bombing including people who lived during that time period to develop a testimony.   Another thing that I really liked about your role as U.S. Attorney is how you went after public officials who were corrupted on getting illegal bribes, pushed for drug treatment programs to help drug-users get the care they need, and prosecuted industries that committed environmental crimes to help protect the environment.   After you left your role as U.S. Attorney, I’m very proud on how you continue to advocate for the need to make Civil Rights stronger, support people with disabilities’ rights, and express the need to make law enforcement agencies reduce racial profiling.

Attorney Douglas, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased. Another thing that I struggle with a disability is when I face some bigotry or prejudice from other people due to having a disability or being different from other people. Your strong commitment to be a strong supporter of protecting Civil Rights, advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, and prosecuting people who commit hate crime really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  I enjoyed watching your interview on PBS with Travis Smiley because I got to learn more about the history of some of the Civil Rights era, learned about the 16^th Street Baptist Church bombing, and your thoughts on how you handled the case.  Your role as U.S. Attorney motivates me to continue my interest in learning history with public policy and even Civil Rights. My future goal is to work in a history job to help emphasize the need to make Civil Rights stronger, have criminal justice reform to protect civil liberties while reduce crime, and many others.

I strongly believe that you made a great difference when you served as U.S. Attorney. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to protect Civil rights, push for criminal justice reform, and even did an excellent job handling the 16^th Street Baptist Church bombing case.  You have inspired me to work hard on my disability, have an interest in learning about your work, and be motivated to continue to learn history including Civil Rights.  I was wondering if you could please some advice about working hard on a disability and explain your thoughts about when you served as U.S. Attorney.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making a great difference as U.S. Attorney, and inspiring me.  I wish you well for the future to advocate for criminal justice reform including Civil Rights and I hope you do well in the U.S. Senate 2017 special election.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Attorney Jones sent me a picture of myself giving a speech about running for the special election for 2017 in Alabama. 

His campaign literature 

His campaign literature explaining more about Attorney Jones's issues like supporting protecting the environment from pollution and defend women's access to healthcare. 

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key

6/20/2017

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key

Hamlet (Until Sep 3 2017)

c/o Anspacher Theater/Public Theater

425 Lafayette Street

New York, NY  10003

Dear Mr. Keegan-Michael Key,

My name is Matt Winick and I’m a huge fan of your comedy work. My favorite tv show that you played in are Key & Peele and recently in a movie called Keanu.  In Key & Peele I like on how you and Mr. Jordan Peele do such a great job working together to make sketch comedy great. I enjoyed watching all the episodes from season 1-5.    My favorite episodes of the show are Victory, Gangsta Standoff,  Puppy Dog Ice-T,  LA Vice,  and Obama sketches.  I liked about how you and Mr. Jordan Peele do such a great job on making comedy great on focusing on American popular culture, different stereotypes, race relations, and sometimes parodies on different subjects like movies or different things and thought the concept of explaining the different sketches to the audience members to help them understand the scenario.  In April 2016, I saw Keanu in the movie theaters. I enjoyed the comedy movie about two friends Clarence and Rell who go on a journey and pretend to be gangstas to find Rell’s cat name Keanu after it goes missing.  In Keanu, I was very happy on how you teamed up with Jordan Peele to make the movie great with excellent comedy and make Clarence along with Rell great main characters. 

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble making friends and getting teased. Another thing that I struggle with autism is when people get judgmental about me being different or push me away from social groups.  Your work in comedy including have a sense of humor and your work with Mr. Jordan Peele on friendships with being creative really inspires me to work hard on my disability, understand the need for friendships, and to develop an interest in comedy.  

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key, you have inspired me to be a fan of comedy and to enjoy watching Key & Peele.  I’m very proud on how you work hard to make comedy fun to enjoy with a sense of humor and working with Mr. Peele to make Key & Peele and other comedy teamup fun to enjoy. Also I’m proud to call Keanu one of my favorite movies because it had great comedy and you along with Peele did an excellent job.  I hope there can be a sequel of Keanu or another movie with you and Mr. Peele teaming up again.  Here is a picture of me and $5 as a gift to you to keep for inspiring me to be a fan of comedy and be a fan of your work and to work hard on dealing wit autism.  I was wondering if you could please take the time to answer some of my questions.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making comedy great to watch, doing an excellent job teaming up with Peele to make comedy funny, and inspiring me. I wish you well in comedy and to continue teaming up with Peele to make more comedy great.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

1045 Olivia Avenue

Ann Arbor, MI  48104 

Mr. Keegan-Michael Key took the time to answer my questions including about his favorite moment s in Key and Peele and in Keaunu 

He sent me a personalized message on a picture of him  

Mayor Kirk Caldwell of Honolulu, Hawaii

6/15/2017

Mayor Kirk Caldwell

c/o  Office of the Mayor

Honolulu City Hall

530 South King Street, Room 300

Honolulu, HI  96813

Dear Mayor Caldwell,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history with public policy. In these subjects I like to learn the need to advance on Civil Rights to help protect people who are different from being discriminated, protect the environment from pollution, find ways to improve public safety to help protect citizens from danger, and many others.  The main reason I’m writing you a letter is because I find your current work as 14^th Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii to be very inspiring to me.

In your current role as Mayor of Honolulu, I like on how you are a strong supporter of Civil Rights  to protect women, minorities, and people with disabilities from being discriminated in education, public places, and jobs.  Also on Civil Rights, I like on how you are an advocate for people with disabilities’ rights, make public places have accommodations to help people with disabilities to get access to them through transportation or getting assistance on different services, support LGBT rights to help protect them from being discriminated based on their orientation, and express the need to help expand equal pay for women.  Fixing roads to help reduce potholes ompleting a rail train to help transport people from East Kapolei to Downtown Honolulu to help people get to their destination including reduce long traffic waits, and push for laws to combat against hate-crimes are great ways to improve public safety.  On the environment, I am proud on how you are a strong supporter of funding renewable energy projects (wind, solar, biofuel, and energy efficient products) to help reduce addiction to oil with gas, expand funds to help clean beaches along with parks to help reduce pollution while make them safe for people to use, and fix water pipes to help provide people with safe water for them to use.  To help the homeless I like on how you provide hygiene facilities to help make people who are homeless healthy, expand on funds for homeless shelters to help provide then with shelters, and work on funding health services to help them get the medical care they need.   Another thing that I like about your work as Mayor is on how you help fund historical areas including national parks to be preserved to improve tourism and to make learning history a better place for people to learn. Also I like on how you use your role as Mayor to help recognize police officers, activists, minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities who work hard to help make society better.

Mayor Caldwell, I have Autism with a learning disability. Having Autism is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different subjects especially new things, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights and support people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability. Your work to help recognize people from different backgrounds inspires me to write letters to people who I believe that make a great difference or how they inspire me. Also your work as Mayor of Honolulu inspires me to continue being motivated to continue my interest in learning history with public policy.  My future goal is to someday teach people about the need to improve society or work in public policy to help shape common sense ideas to help make society better.  

I strongly believe that you make a great difference for society in your current role as Mayor of Honolulu.  You have truly inspire me to continue to work hard on my disability, continue my interest in learning history, and to help recognize people who work hard to make a great difference or who inspire me by writing letters.  I was wondering if you could please share with me what it is like being Mayor of Honolulu and explain what Honolulu is like.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference for society, and inspiring me. I wish you well to continue making a great difference to make society a better place for people.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Mr. Richard Thomas

4/20/2017

Mr. Richard Thomas

The Little Foxes (Until July 01 2017)

c/o Samuel J Friedman Theatre

261 West 47^th Street

New York, NY  10036

Dear Mr. Thomas,

My name is Matt Winick and I’m a fan of your acting. My favorite tv shows that you played in are The Waltons, It’s A Miracle, and Just Cause.  In the Waltons, I enjoyed the plot of the show about The Walton family in a rural town of Virginia where they experience on how their lives are impacted during historical periods ranging from Great depression, WW II, and other significant events.  Mr. Thomas, I really thought you did an excellent job portraying John ”John-Boy” Walton Jr. because I liked on how you made him have interesting traits like being a serious thinker when he has to deal with understanding how society works and how he works hard to overcome different challenges when he deals in historical events where it helps shape him in a certain way.  In the Waltons, I really liked on how you made your character also play a role in trying to understand American history like trying to save a person’s life during the Hindenburg disaster and enlist in the military during World War II along with when Pearl Harbor was attacked.  Also what I enjoyed about the show was on how the family had different views about how the historical vents played a role or how different members of the Walton family have unique traits.   It’s A Miracle was an interesting show on PAX-TV because I really liked on how the show had a great focus on how people had experienced miracles in their lifetime or when they had a struggles. It did a great job explaining about the cause of a situation, how the person felt or what their experience was, and how a miracle played a role.  You did a really great job hosting the show because I liked on how you helped connect with people who had struggles or how they were affected by a miracle, did a great job narrating a story, and had a great message at the end of the episodes about the need to work hard at overcoming different struggles.   Another show that I watched was Just Cause and I liked the show due to having a great plot about a woman named Alexandra who went to prison for a crime that she didn’t commit then she decided to get a law degree from taking law classes online, later she goes to work for a well respected attorney Hamilton Whitney III where they work on cases together.  The main reasons I really liked the how was on how it dealt with civil cases, how Alexandra has a trait where she is willing to use the law to help people who feel abandoned by the judicial system or can’t afford a lawyer while Hamilton Whitney is more interested in willing to represent clients who are willing to pay, and  how later Whitney and Alex put their differences to work together in order to help people who are less powerful achieve justice.

Your role in the Waltons motivated me to have an interest in learning American History.  In American History I like to learn about different famous people in America worked hard to overcome different struggles to make our country unique, the need for Civil Rights to reduce discrimination, continue to make social justice a better place, and learn how different significant events in American history helped shaped society.  The show also helped me understand how society gets affected in different ways by historical events.  When I was young I use to watch It’s A Miracle on PAX TV because it really had great moral lessons that there can be miracles when times are tough or in an obstacle. Mr. Thomas, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because  I have trouble comprehending on learning different subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased.  Another thing that I struggle with autism is when I lose friends due to being getting judgmental and struggle to find friendships.  Your host of It’s A Miracle and your message about not giving up when there are struggles or obstacles motivates me to work hard on my disability.

Mr. Thomas, I believe that you are a great actor and do such a great job portraying characters including develop interesting or unique traits. Also you did a great job hosting It’s a Miracle because you have a great message, help connect with people who struggled with an obstacle or other issues, and many others.  You have inspired me to continue my interest in learning American history and to continue to work hard on autism when there are challenges. Here is a picture of me as a gift to you and $5 donation for you to use to help fund the arts. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, doing an excellent job making tv shows great to watch, and inspiring me. I wish you well for the future in acting and to do well on your Broadway show.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick