Back in the early days of the Tea Party, there was a lot of talk about getting ordinary citizens to run for public office. The parents’ rights movement that gained steam during and after the pandemic is causing a resurgence of that effort.
Andrew Gutmann gained fame for pulling his daughter out of the exclusive Brearley School over woke, anti-racist content in the curriculum, then writing a letter to the school which was published.
Now he is running for Congress in Florida as a Republican.
He announced at his Substack:
An announcement: I am running for CongressAlmost exactly two years ago, I wrote a letter and mailed it to every family of my daughter’s New York City private school, the Brearley School. In that letter I expressed a series of objections, most importantly, to the school’s obsession with race and identity, and to its sweeping mission change after the summer of 2020.Brearley had been a school devoted to the highest levels of academic achievement, to free speech and open discourse, and to the development of intellectually curious and courageous girls. Seemingly overnight, Brearley transformed into a political institution determined to turn its students into progressive activists.I never expected my letter to be read by anyone other than the parents of the 656 families to whom I sent it, but it went viral. My words were read by millions of people across America and they helped ignite what we now call the parent’s movement and the fight against woke education.For those of you that have been following my story for two years, thank you for sticking with me. Many of you have become friends, and for that I am grateful. For those of you that have found this Substack in recent months, thank you for joining me on this journey.Today, I announce a new chapter in this story we are writing together. I am running for Congress as a Republican in my new home state of Florida to help take this fight for our children and our country to the federal government…Successful democracy demands an educated citizenry that shares some common values and common purpose. Our education system has failed us, producing a populace neither knowledgeable nor appreciative of our country’s founding values.
The New York Post picked up the story:
Dad who exposed woke infiltration at NYC’s elite Brearley School running for Congress in FloridaA former New York City resident who famously exposed woke manias at his daughter’s elite Manhattan private school is running for Congress in his new home state of Florida.Andrew Gutmann, 47, roiled the exclusive Brearley School with a scalding letter to parents in 2021, and will now seek office as a Republican in Palm Beach County’s District 22.“I wrote that letter to my fellow parents at Brearley out of a sense of duty,” Gutmann said of his decision. “Now I run for Congress out of the same sense of duty.”The “political refugee” argued that slowing the woke infiltration of American institutions will require far greater political representation than currently exists — hence his decision to run.“Very few of our national leaders or even state leaders understand that this is a fight for our fundamental values and for Western civilization,” he said. “We need people in federal government who can speak to these issues.”
The country needs more average citizens to step up, get involved, and run for public office.
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