“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 in the opinion article. is building a new office tower in Irving and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. set up shop in Irving last year after leaving Illinois. opened headquarters in the Dallas suburb of Westlake in 2021 after leaving California, and Caterpillar Inc. Just this month, Frontier Communications Parent Inc.
Since Johnson was elected in 2019, he’s helped attract and benefited from companies relocating from higher-tax states to Texas, where there’s no state levy on income. Home to 1.3 million people, the city is one of the 10 biggest in the US. “Most of these local leaders are proud Democrats who view cities as laboratories for liberalism rather than as havens for opportunity and free enterprise.” “Local elected officials have failed to make public safety a priority or to exercise fiscal restraint,” Johnson wrote in a column in the Wall Street Journal.
(Bloomberg) - Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said he’s leaving the Democratic party to become a Republican, citing his commitment to law and order and fiscal conservatism and bucking a local shift away from the GOP.
