{"id":105332,"date":"2026-01-20T01:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105332\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:53:24","slug":"democrat-turned-republican-mayor-offers-businesses-a-sanctuary-from-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105332\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat-turned-Republican mayor offers businesses a sanctuary from socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Democrat-turned-Republican Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson is offering a sanctuary from socialism, charting a starkly different course from New York City as he argues progressive policies there are driving businesses away and weakening public safety.<\/p>\n

“It appears to be that New York wants to be the heartbeat of socialism<\/a> in the United States. That appears to be the direction it’s going,” he said Sunday.<\/p>\n

“But down here in Dallas, I can tell you, we embrace business, we embrace capitalism, we embrace corporations who employ folks and who are actually pillars of our communities.”<\/p>\n

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Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wis., on July 16, 2024. (Jacek Boczarski\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Johnson declared that “America\u2019s cities need Republicans<\/a>” and pledged to adhere to fiscal conservatism and law-and-order principles when he announced his party switch in a 2023 Wall Street Journal op-ed.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Fox News host Brian Kilmeade Sunday, Johnson said Dallas was already emerging as a financial services hub before the election of New York City\u2019s new mayor, a trend he said is now accelerating.<\/p>\n

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives at the subway station in the Queens borough to go to City Hall in New York, Friday, Jan. 2. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez\/AP Photo)<\/p>\n

“I’m already getting phone calls. We’re already having more conversations than we’ve ever had before, more interest in moving to Dallas by New York-based financial firms,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The answer is there is a flood and an avalanche of interest in being where I think people who do this for a living, folks in the financial services industry, understand that the future of capitalism in this country is moving west,” he added.<\/p>\n

Johnson said Dallas\u2019 refusal to adopt sanctuary city policies has helped position the city as a destination for businesses and workers seeking stability, safety and a pro-growth environment.<\/p>\n

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“We support law enforcement here in Dallas. We support law and order. I don\u2019t think you can have a city if you don\u2019t have safety,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t understand the impulse some of these Democrat mayors<\/a> have to embrace lawlessness.”<\/p>\n

Taylor Penley is an associate editor with Fox News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democrat-turned-Republican Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson is offering a sanctuary from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47835,6885,2388,9,24,55,54,56,47836,1211],"class_list":{"0":"post-105332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-dallas-fort-worth","9":"tag-fn-flash","10":"tag-fox-news-media","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-one-nation-with-brian-kilmeade","17":"tag-socialism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}