{"id":118826,"date":"2023-09-27T02:15:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T02:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=118826"},"modified":"2023-09-27T02:15:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T02:15:51","slug":"dallas-mayor-switches-to-gop-making-city-the-largest-led-by-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=118826","title":{"rendered":"“Dallas mayor switches to GOP, making city the largest led by a Republican”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WaPo<\/a>: “The mayor of Dallas is switching parties after serving in public office for years as a Democrat, making the north Texas city the country\u2019s largest led by a Republican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Johnson, a former Democratic Texas state lawmaker, wrote in an\u00a0op-ed published<\/a>\u00a0in the Wall Street Journal on Friday that he was switching parties because \u201ctoo many Democrats insist on virtue signaling,\u201d and argued that Democratic policies have not sufficiently addressed crime and homelessness….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some local Democratic leaders were not surprised by the move, saying the mayor had governed more toward the center than they felt Dallas voters wanted. Johnson recently voted against the city\u2019s nearly $5 billion budget passed by the city council<\/a>, citing insufficient cuts of the property tax rate, and has supported anti-crime initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s proven to be what we thought he was,\u201d Kardal Coleman, chair of the Dallas County Democratic Party, told The Washington Post. \u201cIt\u2019s an insult to the voters in the city of Dallas, who were sold on a bait and switch. Mayor Johnson is abandoning his values and, unfortunately, the people and voters of Dallas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Share this articleNo subscription required to readShare<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden<\/a> won Dallas County handily in 2020, beating Donald Trump<\/a> by more than 30 percentage points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statewide Democrats similarly criticizedJohnson\u2019s party switch, adding that they were grateful Johnson left the party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGiven his long-standing affinity with Republican leaders and ideology \u2026 this announcement is neither surprising nor unwelcome,\u201d wrote Gilberto Hinojosa and Shay Wyrick Cathey, respectively the chair and vice chair of the Texas Democratic Party, in a joint statement. \u201cBut the voters of Dallas deserved to know where he stood before he ran for reelection as Mayor.\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WaPo: “The mayor of Dallas is switching parties after serving in public office for years as a Democrat, making the north Texas city the country\u2019s largest led by a Republican. Eric Johnson, a former Democratic Texas state lawmaker, wrote in an\u00a0op-ed published\u00a0in the Wall Street Journal on Friday that he was switching parties because \u201ctoo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118827,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118826\/revisions\/118827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}