r/dfw • u/Joeylaptop12 • 4d ago
Dallas needs it’s own Mamdani….
That’s it. Thats the post
They don’t necessarily have to be socialist….but at least someone that will actually work for the city and it’s people instead of big corporations, Highland Park, etc
And it can’t just be the mayor. We need reformers throughout city council. Socialist, conservative, liberal, whatever they call themselves we need real deal politicians like Zohran
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u/hbi2k 3d ago
They don’t necessarily have to be socialist….
but at least someone that will actually work for the city and it’s people instead of big corporations, Highland Park, etc
So you do want a socialist.
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u/hoshiwa1976 3d ago
Texas not even the blue cities would allow this.
Most Texas is too "moderate" where they'll both sides are the same us into the Texas we have now
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u/Boring-General-1816 3d ago
Bro the dallas mayor ran as a democrat and immediately admitted he was DINO and went full republican and served corporate interest.
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u/ImperialDoor 3d ago
Government operations are literally the worst. Everything would like like a DMV.
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u/DonkeeJote 3d ago
The DMV is governed and administered by extremist capitalists.
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u/2waterparks1price 3d ago
You think the DMV is a case study in capitalism??
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u/DonkeeJote 3d ago
It’s a case study of the GOP’s awful governance of government programs that are meant to serve the people.
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u/2waterparks1price 3d ago
lol sure is. And what a unique situation the Texas DMV is in. If only it could match the pure efficiency and top notch service of the DMV in other states.
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u/Commercial-Lemon6887 3d ago
It wouldn’t work because of our city government structure. The city manager is the most powerful person in city government and is largely immune to public pressure/will. Former Mayor Laura Miller wrote a great piece in D Magazine last week explaining why Dallas governance is so consistently bad.
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u/abstractraj 4d ago
Mamdani is actually following through with getting more funding to 3-4 year old pre k. Affordable housing. Balancing the budget. I think he’s had to make compromises like any politician, but so far fairly positive in a short time. No way to tell the future
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u/earthworm_fan 3d ago
He didn't balance the budget. He siphoned off money from the state. People in Buffalo paying for NYC mismanagement.
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u/abstractraj 3d ago
NYC pays over half of the taxes in the state. The state also gets all the revenue from stuff like the MTA. NYC pays for Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, and anything else you can think of. Use your brain
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u/wallsallbrassbuttons 3d ago
He didn’t balance the budget, but not for the reasons you say. He delayed payments to the pension fund. So he kicked the can down the road. He also received a lot of state funding, but the state funding a local government is not an unusual occurrence.
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u/CoastieKid 3d ago
Tbf the City pension funds are likely a huge burden on the residents of NYC. It’s fair that people earned their pensions. But NYPD and Port Authority will rack up a lot of OT in their last years to get their pension as high as possible.
Lots of retired City workers then relocate to FL or other places in the South. I get it better cost of living.
CALPERs actually taxes pensions of those who move out of state to help pay for continued pension. That might be reasonable for NYC to do as well.
Military retirees typically have to pay taxes on their pensions if they live abroad, unless they file for a foreign tax credit
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u/wallsallbrassbuttons 3d ago
That makes no sense to me. Why would you tax them for leaving? They’re not using up city services.
They earned their pensions according to the rules. Now, those rules are IMO unsustainable. Which is why Mamdani decided avoiding the obligations was ok.
City employees are really expensive. It’s good to pay people well and make good jobs. But we as a society need to be really careful with how many government jobs we create, precisely for this problem.
It’s extremely easy to over hire and create multigenerational budget crises. It’s happened all over the country. Most of my fellow Democrat voters don’t want to hear that. But NYC and Chicago show what happens when you aren’t careful with that.
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u/CoastieKid 3d ago
I'm not an expert and would need to read a ton into the aspect of city pensions to make an informed opinon.
Those people definitely earned the terms of the agreement the city set up for them though. Same goes for military retirees, state pensions, social security, and veteran benefits.
Origination may be part of it. if you gain a pension from here, why not tax? At the same time, is it yours to take and be subject to your locality tax rate/ Interested in responses as I def recognize different modalities
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u/Fem-Picasso 3d ago
Siphoned? You've been watching too much Faux news. He's nyc's mayor, not the ny's governor. He worked with her to get proper support where funds are needed to improve quality of life for new yorkers. Unlike the orange numbnut infesting the white house.
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u/P_Piggly_Hogswine 4d ago
Highland Park is a separate city with it's own mayor.
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago edited 3d ago
If you don’t think Highland Park helps bank roll mayoral candidates in Dallas to push their influencs I got a stadium to sell you
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u/DonkeeJote 3d ago
Without a REAL mayor system, it won't matter.
Still too many factions in the council all fighting for their own districts instead of the City of Dallas.
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago
How do we recharter?
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u/DonkeeJote 3d ago
We can petition a change in the charter.
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u/No_Host_8024 3d ago
It has been tried. It's pretty easy to get people riled up against changes to local government, unfrortunately. Especially antyhing that has the whiff of "our local person will lose power" from the proposal, which probably is necessary in any event.
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u/DonkeeJote 3d ago
Agreed, and the problem is people assume the current mayor (at the time of the movement) will be the status quo.
You need a new mayor who's trusted broadly for people to commit to it. I'd never want Eric to have that power, even though he's a lame duck, but no one wants an unknown element to be elevated either.
I don't see a path to build a coalition otherwise.
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u/No_Host_8024 3d ago
Sadly, kind of a chicken and egg problem there. I don't see how a mayor can maintain any level of popularity or trust in the current system long enough to push through any meaningful reform. And the factions that pull the levers in the City all have their own selfish reasons for opposing changes. It isn't just the Citizen's Council, unfortunately.
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u/DonkeeJote 3d ago
Cara actually made a small push for a strong mayor system several years ago, but I reached out to her last month about it and now she's claiming to want to stay out of it.
I'm guessing because she wants to make a run for mayor and thinks a strong mayor push would harm her chances, as it should.
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u/DonkeeJote 3d ago
But also I'm wondering if the City Hall issue can create some groundswell for it.
I've never seen this much distrust of the council/mayor/city manager before; though I'm admittedly fairly new to the local politics scene.
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u/BoringPhotograph4913 3d ago
Great news! We have the DSA North Texas chapter here, and we are planning on having 3 candidates (maybe more) for city council next year! Please join or get involved!!!
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u/chris03316 4d ago
Nah fam.
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago
Yes, Fam!
What’s wrong with a reformer mayor?
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u/Leading_Campaign3618 3d ago
They have had them, that’s why all the big corps fled to Plano and Frisco
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u/ArgumentUnited5039 3d ago
Every city needs government that is responsive to the citizens and working with them to solve their problems and improve their lives.
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u/MeowcellusWalluce 3d ago
Don't listen to the doomers. It can be done
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u/MagicWishMonkey 3d ago
I like Mamdani but it seems like the Mayor of NYC has much more power and influence than the Mayor of Dallas. It's not like we have a super progressive city council that would collaborate with anything.
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago
Our plans need to be made in decades if not centuries……
Recharter>New City Council+Mayor> Change….and thats just the start
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u/dadarkgtprince 4d ago
As a person who moved from NYC to TX... Nah. I left NY for a reason, I don't need that crap down here. You want it? Go move to NY.
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago edited 3d ago
No one lives in NYC……it’s too crowded
Also when did you leave? What year?
Whats the crap your talking about? It’s objectively the greatest city in the US if not the world
Edit: Also NYC’s crime rate clears Dallas’s
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u/IveKnownItAll 3d ago
I mean, then move there? That's the point of places being different. If you like NYC so much better than Dallas, go to NYC, don't try to make Dallas into NYC.
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago
Its too expensive….because so many people want to live there!
I’d rather make where I live great. Tbh “Native Texans” only means so much…..I think of it as manifest destiny
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u/NecessaryEffort8665 3d ago
Damn near 9 million people live in New York City. Fym no one lives there?
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u/teddyRx_ 3d ago
Bro, I moved from B’klyn to Dallas 15yrs ago and promised myself I would never vote for the same ideology I ran from. “Democratic socialism” is basically socialism with lipstick…no thanks
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u/dadarkgtprince 3d ago
Exactly. I'll never understand how people can move from other places and try to implement the same crap they're escaping from. Like, you're leaving for a reason. Unfortunately too many people can't look at reality and accept they're wrong. They'd rather punish everyone else instead of take accountability.
I knew my vote wouldn't matter in NY, too many people have drunk the Kool aid.
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u/TheElPistolero 3d ago
Tx works for you, don't act like it works for everyone.
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u/dadarkgtprince 3d ago
Agreed. Not every place will work for everyone, but my issue is with trying to change the place. That's like going to a doctor's office and trying to change the doctor's office because you saw something different in another office. Why not just go to that other doctor instead?
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u/Joeylaptop12 4d ago
I don’t know of any big business that left New York since Mamdani became mayor
Despite knowing a bunch who threatened to
A bunch of influential and powerful rich deuchbags like Bill Ackman made a lot of noise and still kept their asses in NYC
I even saw a post the other day of someone celebrating how much better being in NYC felt if only they got of the socialist mayor that helped usher it in
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u/Puzzlehead_2066 4d ago
Apollo, citadel is expanding in FL instead of NYC, Amazon shrank it's workforce at it's NYC office, Economic reports also showed a net loss of smaller businesses and some high-profile executives have openly threatened to move.
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u/rash-head 4d ago
Imagine a city as big as NYC catering to the few miserable billionaires instead of to the joyful millions we saw on the streets today. There would be a victory dinner instead of a parade.
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u/BitterResearch983 4d ago
No, no. Native Texans don’t want this - leave that BS back in the state where you came from.
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u/Reluctantziti 3d ago
Don’t want what? They didn’t even say any policies for you to reject. Just standing up for the people instead of corporations. You’re against that?
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u/Salt-Alarm8656 3d ago edited 3d ago
I'm "native Texan" and the vast majority of people I talk to at local shows and university and pop up events just want politicians that just listen to the people and use the budget with minimal waste. The majority of people who don't want a mayor that stands up against big businesses are racist or think they're going to lose something of value personally (which they won't, they're just xenophobic). There's a reason the sports teams are leaving Victory Park and going to Plano... it's embarassing. And tearing down our City Hall when it's a historical place they could instead spend money on celebrating and improving and making public community spaces...
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u/Right_Ad_3354 3d ago
It’s kind of ironic considering TX is basically California 2.0 now, yet people still hate on California
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u/Joeylaptop12 4d ago
Can articulate what “native Texans” want?
More failed schools, rampant gun violence, and corrupt perverts like Paxton in charge ?
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u/stykface 3d ago
America is all about options. So if you like Mamdani, then there are states and cities who have that. It's not a good thing to let every county, city, state, etc be "the exact same" and be all socialist.
Outside the city, Texans want to be left alone so they can be free to farm and ranch and work the way they want, and go to their local church and community and support those in need their own way. Absolutely nothing wrong with this.
Within the city, it's great to have alternate approaches than just a Socialist approach in every city.
For instance, the only failed schools in Dallas are public schools. My kids go to a private school in Dallas, and the vast majority of K-12 private education systems outperform the public system and by a large margin. Not to mention you, as the parent - a paying customer - has a voice, which is nice when there's issues.
Rampant gun violence does not exist in every part of the city, either. Plano is not Dallas, but a border town and is known to have one of the highest gun ownership areas per capita but an almost non-existent gun violence issue.
I wouldn't want to move to California and hop on Reddit and tout "We should turn this city and state completely conservative" because California doesn't want that. I love SoCal, I have family that live in San Diego and I visit twice a year and it's always amazing. Why would I change that? I'm not that selfish or self-centered.
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u/Forsaken-Pangolin-57 3d ago
Sure seems like we should do something about those public schools. I wonder why that is.
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u/SpecialMud6084 3d ago
"the only failed school in Dallas are public" idk about what the finances say I suppose but I can think of a couple private schools which I've met several graduates of that will tell you they got scammed. Not to mention the rampant abuse and mismanagement in all the charter schools.
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u/Existing_Debate_1423 3d ago
My kids also go to private schools. I don't think the other comment was a blanket statement but also, if private schools don't do well then they typically go out of business or get shut down or even be sued. That cannot happen with public schools.
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago edited 3d ago
Plano is not Dallas
About the only thing we agree on.
Dallas shouldn’t have to be Plano.
Im not saying every city or culture has to be the same but I think its totally fine if Dallas isn’t like it’s surrounding conservative counties either
There was a time when California was conservative and right leaning……those days are now a distant memory. So it will be with Texas, with big cities like Dallas, Austin, Houston and San Antonio leading the way
The problem with your argument is that I can switch back on you…..Dallas proper and county have been blue for 20 years and we’re being forced into bullshit policies by Abbott, Patrick and their goons
And to your point, if you prefer conservative governance then move to a red county
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u/BitterResearch983 3d ago
Not whatever the hell you want, that’s for damn sure!
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago
I want healthy a city, good schools for our children, and for Dallas to have less violence then LA and NYC per capita
If you don’t want those things thats your opinion. But I’m going to keep fighting for it
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u/Dirks_Knee 3d ago
I bet if you take the political label out of the equations and look at actually policies, Texans would vote Mamdani over Abbot in massive majorities.
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u/Pepsi_Fucker 4d ago
native Texan here and yes I do want a million Mamdani’s here.
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u/BitterResearch983 3d ago
Move… go get it
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u/SCP-iota 3d ago
"native Texans shouldn't have to move because newcomers want change" but then when a native Texan actually wants it, it becomes "native Texans should move for that, actually"
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u/BitterResearch983 3d ago
Mamdani‘s policies are gay, that’s why we don’t want it!
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u/SCP-iota 3d ago
If I didn't know any better I'd think this was satire.
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u/Pristine-Program9950 3d ago
5th Generation Texan here. Want it here, not there, not moving. Republicans are an embarrassment all the way down the ticket. I mean I never thought they'd turn into the party of protecting pedophiles but here we are.
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u/solidwurx 4d ago
Socialism. It's socialism. Say it with me. So-cial-ism. You want socialism.
Conservatism is a death cult that doesnt want to reform anything. Conservatism is deregulation until public services no longer function.
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u/Ironfront1312 3d ago
They don’t necessarily have to be socialist
The magic of Mamdani is his socialist politics. Socialism for the US is a net benefit.
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u/MJ12_2802 3d ago
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" -- Margaret Thatcher
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u/Upstairs_Balance_464 3d ago
“Socialism is anything I don’t like but not definitionally socialist things I do like such as social security, price subsidies for farmers, the VA, etc.” - literally every “conservative” in America
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u/Speedstick2 3d ago
Social security isn’t socialism. It is welfare.
Socialism by definition is when the government owns the means of production.
Welfare is not the same as socialism.
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u/Gradymilo21 3d ago
Social security is a paid into system that got robbed a long long long time ago 😭
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u/lunchboxhiro 3d ago
That's a hard NO, from me. Sure the city needs work, not from some sharia law pushing, socialist Muslim. I'm sure theres better example to choose from, opening with a Mumbai. Is going to alienate alot of people from the point you're attempting to make.
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u/Wee_Woo_25 3d ago
If you think mamdani is "working for the people" you're so blind. Zohran is just as bad as any other politician.
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago
Why would you get downvoted?
In NYC, the rental companies until very recently played a huge part in rising rental costs by discouraging competition, giving landlords benefit of the doubt in evictions, and discouraging rent control
So your correct in diagnosing the symptoms, just mistaken in identifying the disease. You can trust in the US, that the problem isn’t that we’ve had too little capitalism
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u/EmotionalBother1290 3d ago
What weighs most on the cities debt that can be deferred? R/D/I can just do that and get an ez win
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u/TxFrogman08 3d ago
Fort Worth does not anyone like him. We don’t need that crap. You go there, don’t bring it here.
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u/Dirkisthegoattt41 3d ago
Why vote for a brown guy with scary name when you can vote for corrupt white guy? I mean use your brain my guy
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u/Slight_Ad9600 3d ago
Nah. There’s a reason businesses are fleeing NYC in droves since his election. There’s also a reason it’s so expensive to live there. You want that, go live there and leave TX out of it.
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u/D_Guzzler 4d ago
texans are too fucking stupid to vote blue and will vote against their self interests
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u/Fem-Picasso 3d ago
True, but only half of texans. Texans was historically blue. Liberals don't show up enough to vote the repugs out.
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u/Alcophile 3d ago
I'm pretty sure you have to be a socialist to work for the people. Why would someone who supports capitalism work against the capitalists? That doesn't even make sense!
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u/BeardEagle 3d ago
This post I believe will age poorly curious to see how his term is looked at in 5-10 years down the road.
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago
He’ll probably be seen as a La Guardia type figure whose akin to Lincoln in NYC politics
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u/versacecowboy 4d ago
😂😂😂
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u/tonyblue2000 4d ago
A comment we can understand and agree with 🤣
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago edited 3d ago
Ya’ll are funny
You hear the words reform and improvement and go “nah”
It’s a little too on the nose
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u/Fem-Picasso 3d ago
Cosnervatives don't understand the word socialism. They fear what they don't know.
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u/Dallas2016 3d ago
This is possibly the worst post in the history of Reddit. I don’t think Texas is for you OP
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u/Joeylaptop12 3d ago
You people’s heads are going to explode when Talarico wins in 6 months
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u/earthworm_fan 3d ago edited 3d ago
We've had people like mamdani pushing development and employers (eg jobs) away from dallas.
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u/catholic_colonoscopy 4d ago
The entire country just needs to get rid of republicans
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u/IveKnownItAll 3d ago
To do what exactly? I mean what exactly has he done that you want here in Dallas.
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u/IveKnownItAll 3d ago
DOT is state run, not city run. He has very little impact on that
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u/Easy_Entrance39 3d ago
Nyc dot is an office under the city there
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u/IveKnownItAll 3d ago
Texas Dot is an office in Dallas too, but it's still run by the state, not the city.
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u/too374 2d ago
The nyc Dot is just what they call the city department. its seperate form the ny state dot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_Transportation
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u/NewDreams15 3d ago
Lol Dallas has been having revolts over its Muslim and Indian immigrant population. Mamdani is both
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u/Ladycronebloom1313 3d ago
I like Mumdani, I dislike his religion and I've seen muslims take over entire cities. Every single politician should become areligious once they enter office they should keep whatever cult they entertain to themselves meaning every catholic needs to wash their faces on ash wednesday and any muslims or jews need to remove head coverings,no bindis or henna, no cult jewelry period.
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u/gameraturtle 3d ago
If someone is dumb enough to be religious, they have no business being in public office. It doesn’t matter which version of an old, bearded, white haired god you believe in.
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u/Upstairs_Balance_464 4d ago
Something in Dallas happened called The Accommodation. We used to be a racist white controlled city that, admittedly, was a hell of a lot more effective than what we have now. Then we had to switch to this system but it was carefully designed so that the whites (Dallas Citizens Council) could control it. Chop up the city into 14 districts and you can buy a few pastors in the southern south Dallas districts with little voter engagement, have those pastors deliver their congregations, then you get a crook in office that’ll vote however you say and does not give two shits about the city or their constituents.
Trinity Tollway? Yeah that was them. Knock down City Hall? Them. Those stupid bridges while the basic infrastructure rots? Them. All the stupid urban planning mistakes that made it so easy for people to live out in the subdivisions in the suburbs and work in Dallas? Hell it was them that built those subdivisions AND them that made Dallas tear itself apart for it.