Recently Reelected Dallas Mayor Switches To GOP

The Texas Tribune reports:

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, a longtime Democrat, is now a Republican — turning Dallas into the largest city in the country with a GOP mayor.

“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 as Dallas 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.

Read the full article. Johnson was reelected in May and invited Ted Cruz to his inauguration ceremony.

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, a longtime Democrat, is switching his party affiliation to Republican.

Johnson joins Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker as one of two Republican mayors to lead a major Texas city.https://t.co/L9z1LD0D1m

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 22, 2023