The Democrat Mayor of Dallas, Eric Johnson, is switching political parties according to an opinion editorial he authored in the Wall Street Journal.
“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. 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,” Jonson said in announcing his party registration switch from Democrat to Republican.
The popular mayor, who secured nearly 99 percent of the vote earlier this year in the Dallas mayoral election, expressed deep frustration with the Democrat Party’s disinterest in public safety as violent criminals run rampant in America’s major cities: ” Mayors and other local elected officials have failed to make public safety a priority or to exercise fiscal restraint. Most of these local leaders are proud Democrats who view cities as laboratories for liberalism rather than as havens for opportunity and free enterprise.”
The Dallas mayor blasted Democrats he says enact polices that “exacerbate homelessness, coddle criminals and make it harder for ordinary people to make a living.”
Instead of focusing on the needs of urban residents, Johnson argues that members of his former political party are more interested in “virtue signaling” and “finding new ways to thumb their noses at Republicans at the state or federal level.”
Dallas now becomes the only city in America’s top ten largest to have a Republican mayor.
