Mayor Eric Johnson recall. A resignation demand is one of at least two online efforts calling for Johnson to be removed as the city’s top elected official....
Johnson’s office didn’t respond to call, text or email messages requesting for comment Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
According to the city charter, a recall election of a council member or the mayor requires a petition filed with the city secretary that is signed by at least 15% of registered voters in the district eligible to vote in the most recent election. In Dallas County, that would amount to more than 97,000 of the 648,174 voters who were eligible to vote for mayor in May.
months after he was elected to the position. The petition failed after organizers weren’t able to get the required amount of signatures. There were three failed recall attempts against former mayor Laura Miller in 2003, 2004 and 2005. “Mayor Eric Johnson’s switch to the Republican Party is nothing short of an insult to Dallas voters,” the county democrats petition said. “The switch is the launch of a selfish and cynical strategy to get his next job at the expense of his current job, the one Dallas voters elected him to do. He is putting politics, and his resume, ahead of the people.”The positions of Dallas’ mayor and 14 city council members are nonpartisan.
Political observers say they believe the move is largely to position Johnson for his next job. Johnson was first elected mayor in 2019
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