{"id":56441,"date":"2024-01-11T13:57:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T13:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56441"},"modified":"2024-01-11T13:57:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T13:57:44","slug":"recall-the-mayor-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56441","title":{"rendered":"Recall the mayor &#8230; for this?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Dallas Democrats need to get over themselves and end his idiotic notion of seeking to recall Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson for one of the most ridiculous reasons I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>What has Johnson done to earn this misplaced scorn? Has he been caught taking money from the public till? Did he make a horrible hiring decision? Has he created a &#8220;toxic work environment&#8221;? Did he suspend essential public services unilaterally?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no. None of that. His &#8220;crime&#8221; is that he changed parties, becoming a Republican after being re-elected recently as a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, the mayor is elected as a non-partisan politician. Johnson, though, has made no secret of his partisan leanings, having been a Democrat reportedly for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>He recently switched to the GOP, making some sort of statement about how he is more comfortable being a member of the other party. Has it affected the decisions he has made as mayor? No.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Democrats feel a sense of betrayal apparently because of Johnson&#8217;s switcheroo. Give me a break.<\/p>\n<p>Recall efforts should be saved for serious transgressions that affect a politician&#8217;s performance. This effort is full of nonsense and idiocy.<\/p>\n<p>Petitioners are seeking signatures to put the recall effort on the ballot. They have gathered something north of 1,000 names so far; they need more than 100,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>They are wasting their time.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Democrats need to get over themselves and end his idiotic notion of seeking to recall Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson for one of the most ridiculous reasons I&#8217;ve ever seen. What has Johnson done to earn this misplaced scorn? Has he been caught taking money from the public till? Did he make a horrible hiring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recall the mayor &#8230; for this?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9946,10308],"class_list":["post-56441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-dallas-city-hall","tag-recall-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56441","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=56441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56442,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56441\/revisions\/56442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}