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Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching parties and will serve as a Republican-affiliated mayor of the blue-leaning city.

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.

  • @[email protected]
    4•2 years ago

    Personal growth.

    “If you’re a Republican at 30, you have no heart. If you’re a Democrat at 40, you have no mind.”

    • @[email protected]
      14•2 years ago

      I’m over 40, own 2 businesses, on the board of another, and if you believe that you’re an idiot and will never advance.

      • @[email protected]
        12•2 years ago

        Yeah, “sayings” like this are just litmus tests for idiots at this point.

        Whenever someone leans on a “saying” as absolute truth, I know they’re a moron and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

    • Aesculapius
      22•2 years ago

      Here is the correct quote from Winston Churchill: “If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.”
      Also, conservatism in Churchill’s era is absolutely NOT what conservatism is now.

      • snooggums
        9•2 years ago

        Churchill probably meant the literal meaning of conservative, which is slow to change. Doesn’t make his message much better though, since slow to change shouldn’t mean being slow with obvious social problems.