Mayor Ron Nirenberg of San Antonio, Texas

9/02/2017

Mayor Ron Nirenberg

c/o Office of the Mayor

City Hall

P.O. Box  839966

San Antonio, TX  78283

Dear Mayor Nirenberg,

My name is Matt 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 to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, improve social justice to make society a better place, and many others. Mayor Nirenberg, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as Mayor of San Antonio to be very inspiring to me and to congratulate you on winning the 2017 mayoral election race.

In your current role as Mayor of San Antonio Texas , I’m very proud on how you are committed to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights,  expanding laws to combat against hate-crime to help protect minorities including people who are different,  supporting funds to help women including minorities businesses compete in the economy, and expressing the need to improve equal pay for women.   Your approach on improving social justice like supporting the need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants including refugees from being oppressed, working with minorities communities including law enforcement resources to find ways to reduce racial profiling, and pushing to improve law enforcement services to help victims of crime or victims of domestic violence to get the care they need is common sense.   On the economy, I really like on how you expand job-training programs to help train youth including workers to develop job-skills to help them prepare for the workforce, support the need to raise the minimum wage to help minimum wage workers afford to live, and encouraging businesses including local or small businesses to hire women, minorities, and people with disabilities.  To protect the environment, I liked on how you are a continuous supporter of the need to expand renewable energy projects to reduce addiction to oil with gas while reduce pollution, express the need for city council to endorse the Paris climate accord in order to lead by example on reducing pollution, and provide funds to improve city services to help clean parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use. Another thing that I like about work as mayor is how you create the Mayor’s Housing Policy Taskforce to find ways to have affordable housing for people who can’t afford to live, push for more services to help people with mental illnesses get the care they need, support having drug treatment programs to help drug-users get the assistance to reduce drug addiction, and work with law enforcement to push for community policing to help reduce tension between law enforcement and the community.

I wanted to say congratulations on winning the 2017 San Antonio Mayoral race and I’m very proud on how you expressed the need to make government be better for people including improve social justice.  Mayor Nirenberg, 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 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. Another thing is I enjoy your Facebook page where I get to learn about some of your common sense ideas to improve society or social justice in your live videos.  Your work as current Mayor of San Antonio, Texas motivates me to continue my interest in learning social justice and history. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need to improve social justice, protect the environment, make Civil Rights stronger, and many others.

I strongly believe that you are doing an excellent job on making a great difference in your current role as mayor in your first term. You really inspire me to work hard on my disability, be interested in learning more about your work on improving society, and to continue to be motivated to learn social justice including history. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter,  making great achievements, and inspiring me. I would like to get a chance to meet with you to learn more about your role as mayor and for me to share with you what it is like having autism.  Again congrats on winning the 2017 election and I wish you the best to continue to push for more common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Honorable Douglas Kmiec

4/4/2016

Honorable Douglas W. Kmiec

c/o Pepperdine University School of Law

Pepperdine University

24255 Pacific Coast Highway

Malibu, CA  90263

Dear The Honorable Kmiec,

My name is Matthew Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in studying history, world culture, and public policy. The main reason I have a strong interest in these subjects is to learn the need to advance on Civil Rights to help protect people who are different from being discriminated, improve health care to help people get the care they need, understand the need for diversity to help make society better,  and learn the need to improve relations with other countries to reduce tensions, and many others.  Honorable Kmeic, I find you work as a legal scholar, as an author, as a U.S. Ambassador to Malta to be very inspiring to me.

In your role as a legal scholar, I liked on how you wrote books about the U.S. Constitution and how there is a strong need to protect people’s civil liberties like the first amendment, fourth amendment, fifth amendment, and six amendment from being violated.  Another thing that I liked about your work as a legal scholar is how you express support for advancing Civil Rights to protect women, minorities, and people with disabilities from being discriminated and advocate for people with disabilities’ rights.  Another thing that I liked was on how you had good reasonable approach to being catholic with describing how catholic should led by example like how Catholic should not use their religion to discriminate people who are different, the need for separation between church and state, and how they should support health care services for women including people who are poor get the medical care they need.   In 2008, I was very proud on how you express abut being opposed to Proposition 8 that was to allow a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex couples from marrying each other including limiting their rights due to violating religious liberty for churches to marry same-sex couples and how it violated separation between church and state in an article that you wrote.  During the 2008 Presidential election, I was very proud on how you being a moderate Republican with a Catholic background endorsing Barack Obama, a democratic candidate for the Presidential race due to agreeing with Obama about the need improve wages to help minimum wage workers afford to live, have healthcare to help people who are poor or can’t afford get the help they need, and reduce the War in Iraq due to the cost of lives lost.  Honorable Kmiec, I really liked your article “Can A Catholic Support Him? Asking the Big Question About Barack Obama” because I liked on how you explain who you support Barack Obama due to some of his support for some of the Catholic principles.  When Barack Obama became President of the United States, I was very proud on you accepting to become U.S. Ambassador to Malta to help improve relations between U.S. and Southern Europe and help President Obama work hard to make a great difference.  As U.S. Ambassador to Malta, I was proud on how you created a resettlement to help protect refugees including families including giving them freedom be protected from the violence in sub-Saharan Africa and play a strategic role in helping U.S., European Union, and South European countries to work together to reduce nuclear weapons, human trafficking, and drug smuggling to make a world a safe place even reduce tensions.

Honorable Kmeic, I have Autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending in learning different subjects, struggle with speech, and sometimes get teased. Your commitment to be a strong supporter of Civil Rights including being an advocate for people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on Autism.  Your work as an author and as a legal scholar got me very interested in learning more about how the U.S. Constitution plays a role in our country including how civil liberties are important to be protected. Even though I’m a Christian your advocacy for making religion a better place to help people instead of going too extreme helps me be motivated to have faith in religion and understand the importance on how religion can help shape society. Also your work as U.S. Ambassador inspired me to continue my interest in learning history and taking a class about world history at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In my world history class, I enjoyed learning about different countries, understanding the need to improve relations or work with other countries to reduce tension, how different ideas or inventions helped shaped the world, and learning about how famous figures had an impact on the world. My main future goals is to continue studying history, teach people about the need to improve society, work in public policy to help create good ideas to make a world a better place, and even continue to praise people who work hard to make a great difference or who inspire me like you.  

Honorable Kmeic, I strongly believe that you made a great difference for the world and society in your role. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to advocate for good ideas, express the need for religion to help people, work with another political party to help move our country forward, and improve relations between the U.S. and Europe.  You have inspired me to work hard on Autism, learn the importance of how religion can be used for good things, and to continue my interest in history including public policy. I was wondering if you could please share with me what it was like being U.S. Ambassador and ways to continue being interested in history with public policy. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a world a better place,  having the courage to work with President Obama, and inspiring me . Here is a picture of me as a gift to you for inspiring me. Please continue advocating for good ideas to reduce tension between other countries and to make law a better place for people.  

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Honorable Kmiec sent me his book that he wrote

Chief Justice U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss of the U.S. District Court For The District of Vermont

9/07/2017

Chief Justice U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss

c/o U.S. District Court For The District of Vermont

P.O. Box  446

Burlington, VT  05402-0446

Dear Chief Justice U.S. District Judge Reiss,

My name is Matthew Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan with a strong interest in learning history and social justice. In these subjects, I like to learn the need for Civil Rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, have criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others.  Chief Justice U.S. District Judge Reiss, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work in the U.S. District Court For The District of Vermont to be very inspiring to me.

In October 2009, I liked on how you accepted President Obama to be nominated for a seat in the U.S. District Court For The District of Vermont to help him improve the judicial system including help fix the criminal justice system.   In December 2009, I was amazed on how you made history by becoming the first woman to serve as Judge on U.S. District Court For The District of Vermont.  In your current role as U.S. District Judge and as Chief Justice For The District of Vermont, I like on how you are a strong supporter of Civil Rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights,  expressing the need to improve Civil Rights laws to help protect women including people who are different from being discriminated,  push for strict sentencing on people who commit hate-crime to help protect minorities including people from different backgrounds. Another thing that I like about your role in the U.S. District Court For The District of Vermont is how you are an advocate for victim of crime’s rights in order for them to help on their trauma or other court services and support protecting basic civil liberties like the fourth amendment to help protect people from unreasonable search warrants. Also I like your approach on criminal justice reform like support drug treatment programs to help drug-users get the care they need, the need for more funds in forensic science including DNA testing to reduce sending an innocent person to jail, and express the need to end racial profiling in the judicial system including law enforcement

Chief Justice U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss, 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 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 in the U.S. District Court For The District of Vermont motivates me to continue my interest in learning history and 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, have criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and many others.

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference for the judicial system including the U.S. District Court For The District of Vermont. Congrats on making history by becoming the first woman to serve in the U.S. District Court For The District of Vermont. I’m very proud on how you are working hard to improve the judicial system along with criminal justice and Civil Rights. You really inspire me to work hard on my disability and to continue to be motivated to learn more history including social justice.  I was wondering if you could please share with me what it is like being Chief Justice of the U.S. District Court For The District of Vermont. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, making a great difference in the judicial system, and inspiring me.  I wish you the best to continue to push for common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matthew B. Winick

Mr. David Oyelowo actor

12/09/2016

Mr. David Oyelowo

Othello (Until Jan 18 2017)

c/o New York Theatre Workshop

79 East 4^th Street

New York, NY  10003

Dear Mr. Oyelowo,

My name is Matt Winick and I’m a fan of your acting. My favorite movie that you played in was Selma. In January 2016, I enjoyed seeing Selma in movie theaters. In Selma, I enjoyed learning about Martin Luther King Jr.’s Civil Rights legacy and him marching in Selma through Montgomery to protest for the need for Voting Rights Act to help protect minorities from being discriminated in voting.  In Selma, I really thought that you did an excellent job portraying Martin Luther King Jr. because I liked on how you made MLK have a powerful traits like not giving up when there was obstacles or working on other strategies, being passionate about giving speeches to help motivate African Americans including other people from different background like some whites, other minorities, and women especially religious people to support Civil Rights, and balancing between his activism while caring for his family.   Also in the movie, I liked learning about how President Johnson had different thoughts about whether to support MLK’s march or stand by politics, understand what Governor George Wallace’s personality like his bigotry,  and how African Americans including other people who supported Civil Rights.  Another thing that I liked at the end of the movie was on how it paid a tribute to the MLK Family for their hard work on Civil Rights, explained significant people like John Lewis on how they play a role after the Civil Rights movement, and how President LBJ continue his commitment to Civil Rights including expand on Voting Rights Act.  

Mr. Oyelowo, 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 face struggles with a disability is losing friends, have trouble finding friends, people use bigotry or prejudice on me due to having a disability.   Your role as MLK in Selma really inspires me to work hard on my disability and to continue my interest in history when I face different obstacles.  History is one of my favorite subjects because it helps motivates me to work hard on my disability when I face different struggles, understand the need to make Civil Rights stronger to reduce discrimination for people who are different, and learn how famous people like MLK or many other people who work hard to make society better, and many others.  A few years ago, I visited the Martin Luther King Jr. Historical Site in Atlanta, Georgia.  In the site, I enjoyed seeing MLK’s home to learn more about his family, visit his with his wife Coretta Scott King gravesite to pay my respect, see EBENEZER Church where MLK would give speeches as a minister, and explore the exhibits in the King Center to learn more about MLKs life with his legacy for Civil Rights.  MLK is a great influential  to me because his commitment for Civil Rights including being an advocate for people with disabilities; rights really inspires me to work hard when there are challenges and to continue to work hard on my disability.

Mr. Oyelowo, from my strong interest in learning history and enjoy learning about MLK’s legacy I strongly believe that you really made MLK a great historical figure in Selma and really made Selma a great movie.  I’m very proud on how you worked hard to make it a great movie.  Selma had a great message in the movie like the need not to oppress people who are different (women, minorities, people with different religion preferences, and people with disabilities), learn not to repeat the same mistakes in the past,  emphasize the need to  continue to make Civil Rights including Voting Rights stronger, and many others.  Also as a fan of biopic movies including a fan of historical based movies, I am very proud to call Selma one of my favorite movies.  You have inspired me to work hard on my disability when I face different struggles, continue my passion to learn history,  and to be proud to say that Selma is one of my favorite movies.  Here is a picture of me as a gift to you for inspiring me and also here is $5 for you to donate to a charity to help continue to protect human rights from being oppressed or donate to the theatre to help continue to fund the arts.  I was wondering if you could please share some advice about working hard when there is a struggle with a disability or dealing with prejudice.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, doing an excellent job making MLK a great historical figure with making Selma a great movie, and inspiring me. I wish you well for the future in acting and to do well on your Broadway.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick