Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson switches to Republican.

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Current Events » Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson switches to Republican.
VGAddict90
09/22/2023
12:52 PM
#1
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/22/dallas-mayor-eric-johnson-republican/
Vyrulisse
09/22/2023
12:53 PM
#2
Feels like that shouldn't be allowed.
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Jagr_68
09/22/2023
12:55 PM
#3
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Billyionaire
09/22/2023
12:56 PM
#4
Vyrulisse posted...
Feels like that shouldn't be allowed.
You elect people, not parties
I refuse to let my freedom of speech be held hostage by political insurgents and rabblerousers.
El_Marsh
09/22/2023
12:56 PM
#5
Don't care, got paid lol
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HeeathLivesOn
09/22/2023
12:58 PM
#6
NYC also has a former but still effectively Republican mayor
Fuck Eric Adams (tldr: strongly against separation of Church and state + as police authoritarian views)
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HeeathLivesOn
09/22/2023
12:59 PM
#7
Billyionaire posted...
You elect people, not parties
The parties couldn't possibly differ any more right now. The ideologies are radically different. One doesn't simply 'switch' to Republican without strong personal-gain incentives
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MistyKnight
09/22/2023
01:03 PM
#8
Damn these Republican led crime dens

Dallas has a higher murder rate than Los Angeles, New York City, Fort Worth, and Miami.
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mercurydude
09/22/2023
01:12 PM
#9
HeeathLivesOn posted...
The parties couldn't possibly differ any more right now. The ideologies are radically different. One doesn't simply 'switch' to Republican without strong personal-gain incentives

Take any of the many shady actions/outright crimes that Billyionaire supports republicans doing and have a democrat do them and you'll quickly see him demanding that democrat be locked up in prison for thirty years, or far worse.
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KainWind
09/22/2023
01:18 PM
#10
Did he do something shady that would only be investigated if he was a democrat?
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Block_that_Kick
09/22/2023
01:33 PM
#11
Wonder how much the Texas GOP paid him to do this.

Laws dont matter anymore in Texas.
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Ashethan
09/22/2023
02:10 PM
#12
Billyionaire posted...
You elect people, not parties

The person misrepresented themselves. That's fraud. So not only should we have a new election, but they should lock him up.
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Southernfatman
09/22/2023
02:14 PM
#13
This seems to be happening quite a bit. I'm wondering if they're getting bribed or if their sociopathy just comes out and they decide to openly associate with the sociopath party.
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Tyranthraxus
09/22/2023
02:17 PM
#15
Southernfatman posted...
This seems to be happening quite a bit. I'm wondering if they're getting bribed or if their sociopathy just comes out and they decide to openly associate with the sociopath party.
People feel like they have to run "moderates" to win and then this is the result.
It says right here in Matthew 16:4 "Jesus doth not need a giant Mecha."
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Billyionaire
09/22/2023
02:22 PM
#16
Ashethan posted...
The person misrepresented themselves. That's fraud. So not only should we have a new election, but they should lock him up.

On the contrary, this looks to be a pretty genuine move across the aisle. Just read an article and he's pretty passionate about slashing property taxes and the net positive it'd have on the average Dallas citizen, though the budget maintaining those high property taxes was passed anyways. So naturally he's switching.

but they should lock him up.

Yikes that's extreme. What crime did he commit here, pray tell?
I refuse to let my freedom of speech be held hostage by political insurgents and rabblerousers.
Ashethan
09/22/2023
03:27 PM
#17
Billyionaire posted...
On the contrary, this looks to be a pretty genuine move across the aisle. Just read an article and he's pretty passionate about slashing property taxes and the net positive it'd have on the average Dallas citizen, though the budget maintaining those high property taxes was passed anyways. So naturally he's switching.

By running as a Democrat, he misrepresented himself. If he wanted to be a REpublican, he should have run as one.

Billyionaire posted...
that's extreme. What crime did he commit here, pray tell?

Fraud.
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legendary_zell
09/22/2023
04:07 PM
#19
They tried to present him as a rising star and """"progressive"""" when I was in school. That just shows how meaningless and mushy that term has become and how it's more branding than anything sometimes.

Also switching parties like this should immediately cause you to lose office and there should be a snap election called. I believe this, regardless of whether someone's switching from D to R or R to D, or moving to independent but caucusing with a party opposed to the one they were elected on.
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McSame_as_Bush
09/23/2023
12:26 AM
#20
There should be automatic recall election laws for shit like this.
not a lot, just forever
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Solar_Crimson
09/23/2023
12:34 AM
#22
McSame_as_Bush posted...
There should be automatic recall election laws for shit like this.
Absolutely. This shit has been happening way too much.
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Serious_Cat
09/23/2023
12:36 AM
#23
It was a non-partisan election. He didn't run as a Democrat and ran virtually unopposed. He's also apparently right-leaning enough that

State Rep. John Bryant, a Dallas Democrat, took to the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to quip about Johnson's announcement.
Switching parties? I didnt know he was a Democrat, Bryant wrote.
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Heineken14
09/23/2023
12:38 AM
#24
M_Live posted...
How does someone completely switch their party anyway, like all of your views & beliefs just completely flip flopped? What a dickhead


Yeah, it makes sense for people like Amash who went from republican to independent because of the Donnie cult. I mean, he's STILL a republican after all, it's just he's not that sort of republican. But to do a complete 180, like the chick from.... somewhere on the east coast that I can't remember is super shady as fuck and almost certainly due to back room deals from the right.
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McSame_as_Bush
09/23/2023
12:43 AM
#25
From what I've gathered in the whole ten minutes I've spent looking into this, is that the mayor of Dallas is largely a figurehead with very limited power, and this is likely political posturing for some future election Johnson intends to run in. While he's still a slime weasel who should be recalled, at least the actual impact that him changing parties will have on the city appears to be minimal.
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Bio1590
09/23/2023
12:48 AM
#26
It's fucking nuts that the entire US political system is based around Democrats and Republicans all the way down to the local level.
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hockeybub89
09/23/2023
01:06 AM
#27
So he has chosen to side with fascism
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hockeybub89
09/23/2023
01:07 AM
#28
Billyionaire posted...
On the contrary, this looks to be a pretty genuine move across the aisle. Just read an article and he's pretty passionate about slashing property taxes and the net positive it'd have on the average Dallas citizen, though the budget maintaining those high property taxes was passed anyways. So naturally he's switching.

Yikes that's extreme. What crime did he commit here, pray tell?
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Current Events » Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson switches to Republican.