Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson switches to Republican Party

[ExpressLane]

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson switches to Republican Party
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, a longtime Democrat, said he's switched parties to become a Republican.

“Today I am changing my party affiliation,” Johnson wrote in an op-ed published Friday in The Wall Street Journal. “Next spring, I will be voting in the Republican primary. When my career in elected office ends in 2027 on the inauguration of my successor as mayor, I will leave office as a Republican.”

Johnson served in the Texas Legislature for nine years as a Democrat before he was elected mayor in 2019. Though the mayor’s position is technically nonpartisan, Johnson joins Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker as one of two Republican mayors to lead a major Texas city.

Texas Republicans were quick to embrace Johnson as one of their own.

"Texas is getting more Red every day," Gov. Greg Abbott said in a tweet, sharing the announcement. "He’s pro law enforcement & won’t tolerate leftist agendas.".....


https://www.texastribune.org/2023/0...Johnson, a,Democrat, is becoming a Republican.
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So the Black mayor of Dallas is switching parties. Johnson served in the Texas Legislature for nine years as a Democrat. The mayors of Fort Worth and Dallas are both Republicans now.

 

[archives]

So does that mean Dallas is no longer a shithole?

 

[Phantasmal]

So does that mean Dallas is no longer a shithole?

Let’s see how much help he gets by doing this.

 

[NiftyNiblick]

"Texas is getting more Red every day," Gov. Greg Abbott said in a tweet.

The Black mayor of Dallas is switching parties.

Not much new to learn here.

Ironside Abbott,
if his junk actually works,
is a pigfucker
but more likely,
just a steaming pile of pigshit.

Also, decent, dignified African American men and women
have another tap dancing, numbers playing, fried chicken and watermelon eating Uncle Tom asshole
to embarrass them.

I know exactly how they feel--I have DeSantis, Alioto, and Giuliani to humiliate me.
At least Scalia's dead.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

So does that mean Dallas is no longer a shithole?

no. the city council has way more power than the mayor in Dallas.

 

[Matt Dillon]

no. the city council has way more power than the mayor in Dallas.

Ah, the weak mayor system. Tampa is like that.

And I'm sure more than half the city council is ICLEI shills.