Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching parties and will serve as a Republican-affiliated mayor of the blue-leaning city.
While the Dallas mayoral office is nonpartisan, Johnson previously served as a Democrat in the Texas legislature. He slammed his former party in an op-ed for Wall Street Journal published Friday, blaming Democratic policies for “exacerbated crime and homelessness.”
“The future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism,” Johnson wrote. “Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.”
He added: “In other words, American cities need Republicans—and Republicans need American cities.”
Johnson’s announcement makes him the only Republican among the mayors of the 10 most populous cities in the US.
Oh are you saying Texas in one homogeneous block of republicans?
No, but republicans do run the state.
So you’re saying it’s red and blue?
Like purple?
No. Do you think every red state with blue major cities is purple?
Guess what, that’s pretty much all of them. In your mind, with your ‘logic’, red states don’t exist. They’re all purple, lol.
2020 presidential vote was 46.5% democrat to 52.1% republican.
Purple.
Yeah… nah. Look at how the actual state government is set up and who controls it.
Actually, don’t. No matter what you’re going to believe what you want.
Goodbye. Just gonna block ya.
Easy to slink away when the facts don’t line up how you like, hey?
Have a good one.