Andrew Gutmann is a Republican candidate for Congress currently running in the 22nd district of Florida, which includes the city of Palm Beach. This seat is currently held by Democrat Rep. Lois Frankel.
Gutmann champions himself as ‘anti-woke,’ and asserts that he stands for American values.
The Republican candidate for Congress made a name for himself after sending a letter to his daughter’s New York City school, Brearley School, in 2021 challenging their supposed obsession with race and identity politics. That letter landed Andrew Gutman on the front page of the New York Post and as a featured news item on the FOX news network.
Now, Gutmann is running to represent the district that includes Mar-A-Lago in the upcoming 2024 Election, with the Florida Republican Primary set to take place on August 20th, 2024. Gutmann will square off against Dan Franzese, Deborah Adeimy, and D.B. Fugate in that contest. Gutmann’s friends in New York were perplexed. They knew Andrew Gutmann as a liberal Democrat and international businessman doing business in China.
If fact, Gutmann had been fiercely critical of President Donald Trump.
In a blog post at his site EconomicsFAQ that was deleted in November of 2022, Gutmann said,
“We must fight the bigotry, racism and exclusionary tendencies of Trump.”
Gutmann also said “Like many who live in one of the elitist bastions of the United States (New York City, in my case), I am disappointed and dismayed by the election of such a simple-minded, volatile and enormously unqualified man as president.”
Strangely these comments have been deleted from the wider internet but we at Slingshot.news were able to recover them.
If Andrew Gutmann truly believes these things about President Donald Trump, who happens to be a constituent he is vying to represent in the 2024 Election, then why would he delete them from the public record?
An investigation into the federal campaign finance data reveals that Gutmann has made several contributions to one Democrat in his life, but never a Republican. Gutmann donated to Maud Maron during the 2022 Election cycle. Maron is a New York Democrat who praised Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul as ‘Queen Kathy.’
This contribution to Maud stands out.
Maron also supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Election, highlighting the firm footing she holds within the ideology of the American left. Why would Gutmann, who is running for Congress as a Republican, have donated to Maron as recently as 2022?
Maron serves as the Executive Director of FAIR, or the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism. FAIR also works to implement race curriculum within New York public schools. Gutmann, who proclaims himself to be a ‘warrior’ against ‘woke’, donated to campaign of the executive director of a group that pushed the exact ideology he proclaims to fight against.
In addition to having a questionable political donation record, Andrew Gutmann also does business in China. His business, Basstech International, a chemical shipping business, was registered to do business in the State of Florida on August 8th, 2023, just months after he announced that he would be running for Congress in the upcoming 2024 Election.
Why would Gutmann register his company in Florida just after announcing his run for Congress? Basstech International is also registered to do business in Hong Kong. See evidence of Basstech’s Hong Kong registration below,
Gutmann didn’t just register his company in China. In 2006, the candidate for Congress opened a facility in China. He currently employs people in China. His company currently works from hundreds of factories in over 20 provinces in China.
Basstech and Gutmann have also benefited from the Biden Administration tremendously, with him imports haven risen over 3600% since Biden took office in January of 2021.
Gutmann’s company even received nearly $750,000 in PPP loans, which have been since forgiven by the federal government, during the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020.
Whether it be his business in China, his past statements about former President Donald Trump, or his donations to Democrats, it’s hard to figure out exactly what Andrew Gutmann really is. For an individual vying for Republican votes in the upcoming Republican Primary, his past certainly indicates that he is not a member of the Republican Party, and certainly no ally of Trump. Florida Republicans will ultimately decide matters for themselves.
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