Dulce (Candy) Gutierrez | Abortion & Anarchy in Yakima

Gutierrez has been endorsed, funded, and works for Planned Parenthood. This automatically negates her legitimacy in Christian, conservative, and Latino communities.

TIME Magazine Tells All

The 2020 election up until Inauguration Day was a BIG deal. But after the smoke of J6 cleared, TIME Magazine published what we believe is one of the most damning documents of the Biden Administration era...and it has local implications.

TIME's article is called "The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election" by Molly Ball. It's a tell-all about how a far-left, "well-funded cabal of powerful people" (TIME's exact words) managed to "protect" our democracy.

The AFL-CIO & Mike Podhorzer

One of the key institutions TIME Magazine credits is the AFL-CIO, the "American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations."

It's the largest conglomerate of labor unions in the U.S., which mean it's definitely a communist stronghold.

At the head of the AFL-CIO's interactions with the 2020 election was a man named Michael Podhorzer. He's a political data junkie and the assistant to the AFL-CIO's president for strategic research. TIME states that pre-2020, Podhorzer predicted disaster with the election and became "determined to protect it."

"Protecting the election" meant meetings. Lots of meetings. According to TIME, Podhorzer began holding back-to-back Zoom calls for hours a day within a huge network of operatives.

[Podhorzer's] meetings became the galactic center for a constellation of operatives across the left who shared overlapping goals but didn't usually work in concert. The group had no name, no leaders and no hierarchy, but it kept the disparate actors in sync.
-TIME Magazine

Podhorzer's operatives were in organizations and movements like:

• The labor movement
• The institutional left, like Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace
• Resistance groups like Indivisible and MoveOn
• Progressive data geeks and strategists
• Representatives of donors and foundations
• State-level grassroots organizers
• Racial-justice activists

Dulce Gutierrez's Organizational Involvements

Gutierrez was trained at the University of Washington. While there, she persuaded the university to pass a three credit diversity requirement for all students. She was funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Achievers Scholarship.

After college, she became well-connected among a bizarrely incestuous network of organizations.

Gutierrez is an organizer (activist) for the Washington State Labor Council, which is our state's own chapter of the AFL-CIO. Through the AFL-CIO, she's approved to work for Nuestra Casa in their immigration legal services department. She was also a keynote speaker for the Washington Census Alliance, a pool of 70 different racial activism organizations.

And then there are all the executive boards Gutierrez is on, including the:

• Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) of Washington, an economic development program.
• Entrust Community Services, a nonprofit focusing on assisting individuals with disabilities.
• YWCA of Yakima, a women's empowerment facility.
• Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington & North Idaho, an abortion clinic.

Gutierrez & Planned Parenthood

In her financial statements on the Public Disclosure Commission, Gutierrez lists that she's a member of the Board of Directors for our local chapter of Planned Parenthood. Through the years, Planned Parenthood has contributed at least $750 to Gutierrez's campaigns, and they have regularly endorsed her.

Lines in the Sand | Gutierrez Redistricts Yakima

A substantial section of our organizational chart on Gutierrez is devoted to her involvement in redistricting Yakima. Redistricting is a common tactic among racial activist groups to shift the vote, usually in a further left direction.

The Timeline of Redistricting Yakima

There have been several lawsuits that forced the redistricting of Yakima at the level of City Council, the County Commissioners, and even state Legislature.

• In 2012, Mateo Arteaga, Rogelio Montes, and the ACLU filed against the City of Yakima to create two Latino-majority council districts (District 1 & 2).
  • Montes v. City of Yakima was resolved in 2014. The case also took away at-large voting – where the entire city votes on its council members in the general election.
    • Dulce Gutierrez was elected for the newly redrawn District 1 in 2016.
    • Jason White won the majority-Latino District 2 that year against "Pablo Gonzalez."
• In 2020, a conglomerate of groups sued the Yakima County Commissioners to create a Latino-majority commissioner district (District 2).
  • The Commissioners settled in 2021. The case again attacked at-large voting, and the maps were redrawn to center the new Latino-majority District 2 on Yakima city proper.
    • Immediately after this lawsuit – which Gutierrez was a part of – she ran for County Commissioner in the newly created district.
• In 2021, the organization Redistricting Justice for Washington "created locally-focused campaigns to fight for fair redistricting" of the Yakima City Council...again.
  • The City Council created a third Latino-majority district (District 4) in 2022 – ironically represented by Mayor Janice Deccio.
  • Redistricting Justice for Washington is supported by many organizations, including OneAmerica and Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington & North Idaho, which Gutierrez has strongly interacted with.
• In 2022, the same conglomerate of organizations that redistricted the Yakima County Commissioner (including Gutierrez), went after legislative lines.
  • Palmer v. Hobbs cited the case of Montes v. City of Yakima and quoted that Gutierrez had been told to "go back to Mexico" while campaigning.
    • In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the legislative lines violated the Voter Rights Act, and are now subject to redistricting.

**One Crackima would bet some spice that if Gutierrez loses her City Council race this year, she'll probably run for the newly redistricted Legislature.

Dulce Gutierrez's Part in Redistricting

Gutierrez had a particularly egregious role in gerrymandering the Yakima County Commissioner districts, and she is currently working to redistrict the Legislature.

Her part begins with the Southcentral Coalition of People of Color for Redistricting – yet another board Gutierrez is on.

This mouthful of a coalition was started up in 2021. It doesn't have a website or any official presence online, except in bureaucratic filings. Gutierrez is one of three people listed on the board, alongside:

• David Morales – a lawyer connected with Progreso, OneAmerica, La Casa Hogar, Catholic Charities Serving Central Washington (like Mayor Janice Deccio), and the Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs.
• Faviola Lopez – a donations manager at Northwest Harvest (a "food justice" organization), and a community organizer and public affairs manager at the same local Planned Parenthood as Gutierrez.

The Southcentral Coalition joined up with a whole slew of other organizations to sue the Yakima County Commissioners over their allegedly racist elections.

• OneAmerica
• The Campaign Legal Center
• Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund (MALDEF)
• The UCLA Voting Rights Project

In the end, the Yakima County Commissioners settled with Gutierrez and crew, and the district lines were redrawn to include a Latino-majority region (the newly formed District 2).

Immediately after Gutierrez's gerrymandering, she had the audacity to run for the new Latino-majority district she created...and she LOST to an openly homosexual white male, Kyle Curtis.

Dulce Gutierrez is NOT Yakima's Choice

On top of Gutierrez's failure at rigging the County Commissioner race, you should check out the amount of Seattle money she had behind her when she tried...

Follow the Money | Seattle Dollars Dictate Yakima Elections

Seattle and the west side LOVE to bolster unwanted, far-left activism in Yakima. Soneya Lund censuring and blackmailing city officials over millions in Inslee homelessness funding is one instance of many. Check out how much the west side contributed to Dulce Gutierrez's campaign.

When Gutierrez ran for Yakima City Council in 2015, 42.4% of her funding came from Seattle and the west side. When she ran for Yakima County Commissioner in 2022, 51.5% (over half) her money came from the west side.

How about this year's City Council race?

Gutierrez is running less on Seattle and west side dollars (just 11% this year). However, it's safe to say that 58% of her money is not coming from the Yakima people, but rather large institutions like:

• Tamaki Law
• The AFL-CIO (labor unions which, again, she works for)
• Yakima Neighborhood Health
• Planned Parenthood (she's a board member)

Dulce Gutierrez Doesn't Represent District 1

It's clear Gutierrez isn't liked or funded by the people of Yakima. However, it also appears that she may not live in District 1. We definitely have our doubts.

Gutierrez disclosed to the PDC that she owns a property near 11th Ave. and Tieton Drive – right across from Planned Parenthood, where she's on the board. This property is in District 4 (Janice Deccio's district), not District 1. The Yakima Assessor's Office seconds that a "Candy Liliana Gutierrez" has owned that property since mid-2021.

If Gutierrez owns this property, it means she has to be renting and occupying elsewhere to legally run for District 1.

We did find a document that listed her at an address in District 1 which she does not own. The document was the Southcentral Coalition filing, dated in 2021.

Dulce Gutierrez | Trained by Anarchists

Similar to Mayor Janice Deccio and her husband Xander both working together to further corruption in Yakima, Dulce Gutierrez also has a close compatriot and likely mentor that warrants caution.

Gutierrez works for the AFL-CIO with a woman named Ingrid Chapman, one of their statewide organizers. They participate in many of the same organizations and causes, and have traveled out of state together for activism. Chapman always makes sure to publicly support Gutierrez on election season, and Gutierrez even attended Chapman's baby shower in Seattle.

But Chapman is self-proclaimed anarchist who is "against capitalism." She has a tell-all interview of her own posted online, and a Key Wiki (reserved for the especially hard-left activists). She's a trainer with the Ruckus Society, an organization focused on "direct action" in protests.

Interviewer: You’re an anti-racism organizer and trainer and you are a direct action trainer with the Ruckus Society. How can anti-racism and direct action strengthen each other? But first, what is Ruckus and what do you do?

Ingrid Chapman: Ruckus is an organization that provides skills based training on direct action. This includes direct action planning, blockades, media, political theatre, climbing, radio communications and in the past few years challenging racism and organizing workshops have been included. I’ve been doing climb training since 2000. I also do radio communications and anti-racism workshops. One of the main things I’ve been focused on is helping build a commitment to anti-oppression politics within Ruckus.

-Interview with the Colors of Resistance

Chapman, like Gutierrez, fits the description of activists that Podhorzer was networking with to "save" the 2020 election.

Yakima Already Said "No" to Dulce Gutierrez

Dulce (Candy) Gutierrez has a finger in about every leftist pie you could bake up: unions, feminism, abortion, immigration, voting, and redistricting organizations.

She's funded by Seattle, the west side, and unholy institutions. She probably doesn't even live in her own district. It's incredibly telling that she can't even win an election she rigged.

Gutierrez's close friend and likely mentor is a staunch anarchist, and their network of supporting organizations is highly incestuous; everyone is connected everywhere. This means their culture of lawlessness WILL trickle into Yakima.

Gutierrez has been endorsed, funded, and works for Planned Parenthood, automatically negating her legitimacy in the Christian, conservative, and Latino communities.