{"id":55936,"date":"2023-09-24T02:29:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T02:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55936"},"modified":"2023-09-24T02:29:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T02:29:57","slug":"changing-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55936","title":{"rendered":"Dallas mayor joins GOP … so?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Why the hubbub over Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announcing he now belongs to the Republican Party?<\/p>\n

I heard about this morning and thought immediately: big, fu**ing deal!<\/em><\/p>\n

Johnson serves as mayor of the state’s third-largest city. But you know what? He serves as a “non-partisan” elected official. That’s how it generally goes in Texas. Municipal officeholders don’t run under a partisan banner. We don’t elect these folks because they are Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian … whatever. We elect them because they might pledge to do something that we could support: street repair, more cops on the beat, more efficient trash pickup … those kinds of things.<\/p>\n

It took Gov. Greg Abbott no time at all to “congratulate” because of his party switch. Again … BFD.<\/p>\n

Why did Mayor Johnson make such a big deal of his partisan switcheroo? He might be considering a run for higher office, which requires candidates to run under a partisan banner. If that’s the case, well, it’s his choosing. He did serve as a Democrat in the Legislature before running for Dallas mayor.<\/p>\n

Oh well. I will not spend another minute even thinking about it.<\/p>\n\n

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Why the hubbub over Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announcing he now belongs to the Republican Party? I heard about this morning and thought immediately: big, fu**ing deal! Johnson serves as mayor of the state’s third-largest city. But you know what? He serves as a “non-partisan” elected official. That’s how it generally goes in Texas. Municipal … Continue reading Dallas mayor joins GOP … so?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1343,1941],"class_list":["post-55936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-democrats","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55937,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55936\/revisions\/55937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}