State Representative Theresa Mah from Illinois 2nd District

 

5/02/2020

State Representative Theresa Mah

c/o Office of State Representative Theresa Mah

2108 W. 35^th Street

Chicago, IL  60609

Dear State Representative Mah,

My name is Matt Winick, an Asian American 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, and many others. State Representative Mah, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 2^nd District and your support for the Asian American community to be very inspiring to me.

In January 2017, I was amazed on how you made history on becoming the first Asian American to be elected in the Illinois General Assembly.  In your current role as Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 2^nd District, 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 working with other state legislatures to expand legislation to help combat against hate-crime to help protect minorities including people who are different.  Support expanding on job training programs to help train youth including workers to develop work-skills and advocate for the need to raise the minimum wage to help minimum wage workers afford to live is common sense to improve the economy.  On education, I like on how you support funds to improve special education to help students with disabilities get the accommodations to help assist them to learn and support more literacy programs to help youth including adults develop or improve on their reading skills including comprehension.  Your approach to protect the environment like support funds for renewable energy resources to help reduce addiction to oil with gas, encourage businesses including industries  to use energy efficient products to reduce high energy cost while reduce pollution, and support funds to improve city services to help clean parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use is common sense. Also on social justice, I like on how you support expansion of programs to help the homeless including people who are low income or are poor to get supplies along with shelter, work on legislation to help protect immigrants from being discriminated by landlords, and support programs to help provide nutrition to people who are low income and children who can’t afford a meal in school to help them stay healthy.  Another thing that I like about your work as Member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 2^nd District is how you support the need for ethics reform like ban on gifts to public officials including staff members from lobbyists or lobbying groups to reduce corruption, advocate for immigration reform to help protect dreamers, immigrants, and refugees from being oppressed, and heavily advocate for health care reform to help people who are poor, people with pre-existing conditions, people who can’t afford get the care they need.  Also I like on how you use your role as an Asian American to help the Asian American community by advocating for Asian Americans including Asian American with disabilities’ rights, supporting funds to help repair the Asian American community, working with the Asian American community to help restore or preserve their history, and supporting educational awareness to help educate people about Asian American culture. 

State Representative Mah, 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.  Also being an Asian American with a disability is difficult for me due to some Asians including some Asian Americans get judgmental about me having disability and how they believe that I don’t meet their standards.  Your role as an Asian American and supporting along with advocating for Asian American with disabilities’ rights helps give me some confidence about being an Asian American when I face different challenges.  Your role as current Member of the Illinois House of Representatives 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, improve social justice to make communities a better place, and many others.   My letter is a gift to you for inspiring me and for May Asian Pacific Heritage Month to help recognize Asian Americans individuals who work hard to make a great difference for society.    

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, work on improving social justice, and help the Asian American community. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, and continue to be confident about being an Asian American when I face different challenges.  I hope that I get a chance to meet you to learn more about your work. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to advocate for common sense ideas and to continue to help the Asian American community.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

State Representative Mah sent me a book about the State of Illinois! 

President John W. Nicklow of The University of New Orleans

 

3/11/2021

President John W. Nicklow

c/oOffice of the President

The University of New Orleans

Administration Annex Building, Room 2000

2000 Lakeshore Drive

New Orleans, LA  70148

Dear President Nicklow,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, social justice, environment, diversity, and education reform. In these subjects or core values, I like to learn the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, expand on education reform to improve learning, improve diversity to accept people who are different or come from a different background, a strong need for social justice to improve communities, and many others.  President Nicklow, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as current President of The University of New Orleans to be very inspiring to me. 

In your current role as President of The University of New Orleans, I I truly appreciate on how you are a strong supporter and advocate for civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights and expressing the need to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination in order to protect women, minorities, and people with disabilities. Also to improve civil rights, I liked on how you work to expand on rules to combat against bullying and harassment.  Supporting accommodations to help students with disabilities like extra time on exams or use educational software to help improve comprehension, expanding tutoring services to provide students with help on their assignments from tutors, and implementing more liberal arts, arts, humanities, history, and basic classes to make education diverse along with make more opportunities for students to find subjects that they want to learn are great ways to improve education reform. Also on education reform I like on how you support literacy programs to help students including adults improve on their comprehension skills or gain literacy skills.  On diversity, I like on how you work on hiring women, minorities, and people with disabilities to work for the college and expand on programs to help educate staff members and students about different cultures along with the need for diversity to accept people who are different or come from a different background. Another thing that I like about your work as President of the University of New Orleans is is you expand on more research programs to help students get engage to learn how different topics can make a great difference for society, implement mental health services to help students who struggle with mental health to get the care they need, push for more scholarships to help low income students or minorities get assistance on getting into college or affording supplies, expand more literacy programs to allow tutors to help students including adults in the New Orleans area get help on improving their comprehension, and heavily express the need to reduce high tuition cost to help students from paying high costs in order to get a college. Besides your work as President of The University of New Orleans is I like on how you are how you are a continuous strong supporter of civil rights causes, advocate for environmental protection to reduce pollution, emphasize the need for more liberal arts in colleges, a strong need for criminal justice reform to help protect people’s rights while reduce crime, and express the need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants, dreamers, and refugees from being oppressed. 

President Nicklow,  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.  On your website and on Youtube I enjoy reading about your fundamental ideas to improve diversity, expand on education reform, and some ideas to improve social justice. Your role as President of The University of New Orleans helps give me motivation to continue to learn history, social justice, environmental protection, diversity, education, and diversity. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, importance of education reform to improve learning,  have diversity to accept people who are different or come from a different background, and many others.

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in society and education. I’m very proud on how you work hard to support civil rights, expand on education reform, improve diversity, make social justice stronger, and many others. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, and continue to learn different subjects.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. I was wondering if you could share with me about what it is like being President of The University of New Orleans and some of your goals. I wish you the best to continue to make a great difference.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Ms. Toni Trucks actress (SEAL TEAM CBS)

 

12/30/2020

Ms. Toni Trucks

Seal Team season 4

CBS Televisions Studio

℅ CBS Studio Center

Norvet Building, 3rd Floor

4024 Radford Avenue

Studio City, CA  91604

Dear Ms. Trucks,

My name is Matt Winick and I’m a fan of your acting. My favorite tv show that you are currently playing in is Seal Team.  Seal Team is a great tv show about Navy Seals who are members  of the Bravo Team,a unit of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group where they have to go on missions around the world to stop terrorisms or help save lives while they have to deal with the struggles outside of the missions.  Ms. Toni Trucks, I think that you do such an excellent job portraying as Intelligence Officer Lisa Davis because I like on how you make her have different unique traits like working hard to overcome her challenges of facing obstacles in the Navy to become an Intelligence Officer for the Bravo Team due to her being a woman, using her analytical skills to help investigate different evidence or situations to help assist the Bravo Team on their missions, and many others. Also what I like about Intelligence Officer Lisa Davis is how she works hard to help members of the Bravo Team when they have struggles with PTSD or trauma due to the job.  I enjoy watching season 1 through 4 of SEAL Team because  I like seeing how your character Intelligence Officer Lisa Davis works to overcome her challenges to improve herself and working with other members of Bravo Team to help save the world.  Another reason I like watching SEAL Team is because I like learning about what it is like for U.S. troops including Navy along with the SEAL Team on how they deal with military life, how they work hard to try to understand life when they have to deal with PTSD or trauma, and how members of the SEAL Team work on their friendships or as a team when there are differences.

Besides your acting career, I truly appreciate on how you are a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes to reduce discrimination. Also on your activism I like on how you support raising funds to help Black Lives Matter Movement to help address the need to protect African Americans from being oppressed by the criminal justice system or police brutality. Ms. Trucks, 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. Also another thing that I struggle with a disability is when I face obstacles like having trouble maintaining friendships due to some of my friends, peers, and other adults getting judgmental about me being different or not meeting their standards.  Your support for civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Also your character Intelligence Officer Lisa Davis in SEAL team helps give me motivation to try to understand life when there are challenges and to find ways to improve myself when there are obstacles. 

I strongly believe that you are a very talented actress. You do such an excellent job making Intelligence Officer Lisa Davis have different unique traits in SEAL Team. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability, be a fan of your acting including  SEAL Team, and try to understand life when there are challenges. I was wondering if you could please take the time to answer some of my questions and If you could share with me what it is like starring in SEAL Team. 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.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Ms. Toni Trucks took the time to answer some of my questions.

Ms. Trucks featured my letter to her on her Instagram.

Ms. Linda Gray actress (Dallas)

 

12/09/2020

 Ms. Linda Gray

c/o LGP, Inc.

16654 Soledad Canyon Rd., Suite 502

Santa Clarita, CA  91387

Dear Ms. Gray,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I’m a fan of your acting. My favorite tv show that you played in was Dallas. Dallas was a great soap opera about the Ewing family  where they have to deal with competition for the oil company against other companies including some of the members from their families.  Ms. Gray, I thought you did an excellent job portraying as Sue Ellen Ewing because I liked on how you made her have different unique traits like working to combat against her addiction to alcohol, caring about other members of the Ewing family when they have to deal with different challenges, and many others.  Also What I liked about Sue Ellen Ewing was how she would work hard to improve herself when she makes mistakes and tries her best to get along with JR Ewing when they had conflicts.  In the revised Dallas, I liked on how you continue to make Sue Ellen Ewing an important figure in the series by making her wanting to be a better family member of the Ewing and work to redeem her mistakes.   

Besides your acting career, I truly appreciate on how you are a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes to reduce discrimination.  Ms. Gray, 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.  Another thing that I struggle with a disability is when I have trouble fitting into society due to being different from other people and maintain friendships because some of my friends, peers of them, and other adults get judgmental about me having a disability or not meeting their standards.  When I struggle with these challenges, I lose motivation in myself even though I want to find ways to improve myself to be a better person.   Your advocacy for civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Also your character Sue Ellen Ewing in Dallas working to overcome different challenges and trying to improve herself to become a better person helps give me some motivation to try my best to understand life along with life lessons when there are challenges.

I strongly believe that you are a very talented actress. You did an excellent job making Sue Ellen Ewing a great characters with different unique traits in Dallas. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability,  be a fan of Dallas, and try my best to learn life along with life lessons. 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, working hard to make Dallas a great show, and inspiring me. Please continue to make a great difference.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Honorable Madeleine Landrieu from Louisiana (former Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F and current Dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law)

 

2/04/2021

Honorable Madeleine Landrieu

c/o Office of the Dean

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

Loyola University New Orleans College

College of Law Room 351

7214 St. Charles Avenue, Box 901

New Orleans, LA  70118

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, social justice, and criminal justice reform. 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. Honorable Landrieu, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F and your work on criminal justice reform to be very inspiring to me.

When you served as Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F from 2010-2017, I truly appreciated on how you were a strong supporter of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, pushing for strict sentencing for people who commit hate crime to help protect minorities including people who are different, and expressing the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination. Supporting drug treatment programs to help drug users get the care they need to reduce drug abuse, pushing for programs to help victims of crime or victims of domestic violence get help on dealing with trauma, and supporting along with advocating for the need for funds to improve DNA testings including forensic science to help solve evidence efficiently while reduce sending an innocent person to jail is common sense for criminal justice reform.  Also on criminal justice reform, I liked on how you pushed for social workers to help children who are neglect or abused, people who are homeless, people with disabilities, and people who struggle with mental health to get into a treatment program or therapy to reduce strict sentencing.  Another thing that I liked about your work when you served as Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F was how you were a strong supporter of civil liberties like protecting the fourth amendment to help protect people from unreasonable searches and the 6th Amendment to have the person of the accused to hear what charges including evidence is against them and supported ethics reform to ban gifts to  staff of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F and other judges from lobbyist including police unions to reduce corruption or bad influence in court decisions. In your current role as Dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law I like on how you are a continuous supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities rights and heavily advocate with support criminal justice reform including better protection of civil liberties.  Another thing that I like about your work as Dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law is how you worked on creating a partnership of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and the New Orleans Police Department to  work on ethics reform to reduce police misconduct including police brutality and to find different ways to handle non violent approaches to situations.

Honorable Landrieu, 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 as former Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F and as Dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law gives me motivation to continue to learn history, social justice, and criminal justice reform. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need for 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. Also your work on criminal justice reform helped me get interested in learning about the need for criminal justice reform from watching different documentaries. 

I strongly believe that you are made a great difference in the judicial system. I’m very proud on how you worked hard to support civil rights, push with advocate for criminal justice reform, and many others. You have truly inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, and continue to learn different subjects.  I was wondering if you could share with me on what it was like serving as  Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1st District Division F and as current dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to advocate for common sense ideas to help improve society.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

State Representative Cynthia A. Johnson from Michigan 5th District

 

2/18/2021

State Representative Cynthia A. Johnson

c/o Office of State Representative Cynthia Johnson

Michigan House of Representatives 

State Capitol

PO Box 30014

Lansing, MI  48909

Dear State Representative Johnson,

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, and many others. State Representative Johnson, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as current Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 5th District to be very inspiring to me. 

In your current role as current Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 5th District, 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 expanding laws to combat against hate-crime to help protect minorities including people who are different.  On the economy, I liked on how you support expanding jobs-training programs 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 assist minimum wage workers afford  to live.  Also during covid-19 pandemic, I really like on how you have been a fierce advocate and supporter for people who are low-income or people who have lost jobs or are struggling with unemployment to get assist on getting health insurance to help them stay healthy along with get help on mental health. Also during Covid 19, I really like on how you work hard to help Michiganders get help on filing for unemployment when UIA is making hard for Michiganders and advocate for the need for a better stimulus money yo help people who are low income or have lost a job to have some financial security.  Supporting funds for renewable energy resources to help reduce addiction on oil with gas, encouraging businesses including industries to use energy efficient products to help reduce high energy cost while reduce pollution, and working with state legislatures to expand funds to help clean parks including water resources to make them safe for people to use is common sense to help protect the environment.  On education, I really like your commitment to provide funds to help improve special education to help students with disabilities get the accommodations they need to learn and support literacy programs to help students including adults develop or improve on their literacy skills.  On voter’s rights I really like on how you are an advocate for the need for in-person early voting before the election and allow people to have absentee ballot without a reason. Another thing that I like about your work in the Michigan state legislature is how you advocate for the need for more programs to help the homeless get shelter along with supplies, support and the need for better health care to help people with pre-existing conditions or people who can’t afford insurance get the care they need, and express the need for ethics reform like a ban on gifts to public officials from lobbyists or lobbying groups to reduce corruption.

State Representative Johnson,  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.  On your social media page, I really enjoy seeing you talk about different ideas on social justice, environmental protection, civil rights, and ethics reform.  Your role as Member of the Michigan House of Representatives from the 5th 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 for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, have social justice to improve communities, and many others.  My letter is a gift to you for inspiring me and for Black History Month to help recognize African Americans who work hard to make a great difference for society. 

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, expand on social justice, and many others. You have truly inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn more about your work, and continue to learn different subjects.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to advocate with support common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

Ms. Leah Remini actress and activist

 

1/21/2021

Ms. Leah Remini

c/o Leah Remini Fan Club

PO Box 15669

North Hollywood, CA  91615

Dear Ms. Remini,

My name is Matt Winick and I’m a fan of your acting.  My favorite tv show that you played in was The King of Queens and Kevin Can Wait. The King of Queens was a great comedy show about Doug Heffernan and Carrie, a working class couple in New York where they deal with different things in life with friends and family. Ms. Remini, I thought you did an excellent job portraying Carrie Heffernan because I liked and how you made her have different unique traits like being kind to her husband Doug when he has struggles in life or has trouble fitting into society, having a sense of humor, and taking care of her father Arthur Spooner. Another reason why I like The King Of Queens was because I liked how it had a great sense of humor, how it had themes like the need for friendships when times are hard when there are conflicts, and the importance of working together when there are challenges or difficulties.  Kevin Can Wait was another comedy show that due to the plot of it about Kevin Gable, a retired cop who has a family where he tried to adjust to new life. I liked on how you made Vanessa Cellucci be a unique character by helping Kevin understand life when there are obstacles. Also what I liked Kevin Can Wait was how it focused on the importance of being kind to other people when times are hard, have motivation to improve yourself when life doesn’t work, and many others.    Also when you were on The Talk I thought you did a good job being a co-host because I like how you did a good job asking questions to two people that you interviewed on the show to learn more about the life or what the work they're doing to help improve society, trying to be creative on educating viewers about different topics or different issues that are important today, and working to hold people accountable for their actions.  Recently, I watched Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, documentary series and I enjoyed watching it because I learned a lot about how people struggle with harassment or getting bullied by scientology, how Scientology uses their religion for extreme views of pressing peoples’ rights including people with disabilities’ rights, and many others. In the documentary series, I watched you share your story about your struggles when you were a member of scientology and how you faced bullied including harassment from members of the group. 

Besides your acting career, I truly appreciate on how you are a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes to reduce discrimination.  Ms. Remini, 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. Another thing that I struggle with a disability is when other people, some of my friends, and other adults bully me about having a disability and when this happens I lose faith in myself.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes really inspires me to work hard on my disability. Also your character on The King of Queens and Kevin Can Wait helps give me motivation to try to find different methods to improve myself when there are challenges, learn the importance of kindness, have a sense of humor, and many others. Your documentaries helps me develop interest in watching documentaries to help improve my knowledge of topics or current events in society. The documentaries that I focus on watching are civil rights, criminal justice reform, social justice, environmental protection,  civil liberties, and importance of reducing corruption. These subjects are very important to me because I believe that society needs to improve and learn not to repeat the same mistakes in the past.  

I strongly believe that you are a very talented actress.  I truly appreciate on how you an activist to help improve society. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability, be a fan of your acting,  learn different subjects through documentaries, and try to understand life when there are challenges. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to make an impact on society.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick