Posted on 06/21/2026 10:07:51 PM PDT by Cronos
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson taunted Zohran Mamdani over his war on Wall Street — claiming that the Big Apple mayor’s antagonism is accelerating a stampede of businesses down to the booming Texas city.
In an exclusive interview with The Post, the Republican mayor of Dallas — the fast-growing metropolis that financiers have branded “Y’all Street” — revealed that the migration of corporate titans out of New York is “only getting stronger” after the first six months of the Mamdani administration.
“Mayor Mamdani might be the best thing for Dallas business to ever happen to the city, other than our not having a state income tax,” Johnson quipped. “My message to Mayor Mamdani is, you’re wrong, but keep it coming.”
The 50-year-old, Harvard-educated Johnson likewise ripped Mamdani’s recent video stunt against Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of the top hedge fund Citadel, in which he promised to slap fresh wealth taxes on second homes.
The Post reported earlier Friday that Griffin has been ghosting the mayor after he tried to set up a call amid the uproar.
“I would never, as the mayor, nor would anybody here, stand outside the residence of one of our corporate leaders and say: ‘We are going to try to figure out a way to tax you out of our city. You’re not welcome here,” he declared. “We don’t view businesses or their leaders as the enemy.”
Johnson’s comments came just over a month after a two-day pitch in Manhattan on April 13 and April 14, where he and a delegation of Dallas business leaders wooed Wall Street heavyweights, including JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, and Fortress Investments
During his meeting with JPMorgan Chase, Johnson noted that the banking giant now boasts more employees in Texas than in New York.
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“Yee Haw!!” said a Texan securities dealer of corporate stock calls, puts and futures. “I just passed the test for a Series 7 License, now I can sell stock options. Can’t wait!
The Tide Is High!”
Mamdummy is more like it…and he keeps proving it.
NYC is no longer walkable, you’ll just be assaulted, mugged and/or killed. Their public transport system is decaying badly and is unsafe.
And TX roads aren't the worst, but they can use some improvement too - I noticed on a visit to Dallas. I've heard major freeway updates are underway.
I wish this is what our country would focus on locally and nationwide. Infrastructure. Not war. $$$
Walking or riding public transportation in big blue cities is not advised. Just ask Iryna Zarutska...oh, wait, we can’t. She was murdered on blue city public transport.
(With apologies to the Zarutska family, but the murder of your lost family member *is* a result of the blue urban crime syndrome)
And Ms. Zarutska is just one victim of many.
Those advantages only appeal to the woke.
Nope, even Dallas was walkable until the 1950s. A walkable city means one where you can start businesses anywhere.
It also means one where if you can’t afford petrol or even a car, you can still find a job and pull yourself up.
Sure, but Texas roads aren’t going to have people shove elderly citzens down a subway entrance or citizens of any age in front of trains then let the perp go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM-Rl8FY57o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE1tvYfd5Ps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=parlovwlE5w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeZYqs8w_n8
Or, you know, the regular machete attackers and more fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO687iAvwK8
Depending on where you go, there can be good reasons for the roads to be terrible. In Houston, it’s because they built the thing in a swamp and there’s just no way to keep the roads perfect with swamp subsidence. Not unless you want to play swamp castle.
Road upgrades are a constant thing here in Dallas and they have continued to get better since I got here in 95. It would help if the US would stop electing Democrat admins that keep “misplacing” the Federal money they were supposed to pay us to maintain the Federal highways. Next time you’re in Dallas, try the *very nice* tollways we’ve had to construct as alternatives.
you think the battle is over streets and public transport?
and not the cost of doing business?
That’s not what I said. Did you even read what I wrote????!?!
“New York has some advantages over Dallas, like a walkable city with great public transport but Mamdani is working hard to nullify these advantages and push businesses to Dallas”
Where do you read that the battle is over streets???????
Thats true. They were safe under Giuliani
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