{"id":328557,"date":"2025-10-24T07:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/328557\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:29:10","slug":"dallas-mayor-eric-johnson-misses-public-event-office-wont-say-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/328557\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson misses public event, office won\u2019t say why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hours after appearing at a South Dallas news conference<\/a>, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson was scheduled to speak alongside Lynn McBee to announce the next phase of a program to help 24- to 64-year-old residents access career opportunities. <\/p>\n

However, McBee, the city\u2019s workforce czar, told the gathering that Johnson was unable to attend, citing \u201csecurity reasons.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cMayor Johnson had planned to be with us today, but was recently advised that his public appearances are being temporarily suspended for security reasons,\u201d McBee said at the beginning of the event. <\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s office responded with a contradicting statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe statement, as reported, is false. Mayor Johnson spoke at a public event earlier this morning and has more events scheduled in the days ahead,\u201d said Noah DeGarmo, the mayor\u2019s chief communications officer. <\/p>\n

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Further muddying the waters, when reached by text after the event, McBee backtracked and called her comment a misstatement. She then said in a phone interview that she was given the remarks in advance but did not say by whom. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a misstatement,\u201d McBee said. \u201cI wish people were more focused on workforce development than chasing this misstatement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s office did not immediately respond to follow-up questions sent by text and email about who gave McBee the remarks and what was told to organizers about the mayor\u2019s response. <\/p>\n

At 10 a.m., the mayor spoke at Ruthie\u2019s Fueled by Good<\/a> in South Dallas during the announcement of $6.8 million in grants, a philanthropic investment from Wells Fargo to support economic growth and the development of the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that when businesses invest in local communities, everybody wins,\u201d Johnson said at the event. \u201cThis has been a team effort, and I see a lot of people in this room that I know have put in a lot of work.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was no indication he would not be at the 2 p.m. news conference later in the day. <\/p>\n

At the workforce event, organizers instead played a video message of the mayor lauding a partnership with Goodwill Dallas, which was shepherding the project. <\/p>\n

Johnson experienced heightened public scrutiny last week after denying speculation<\/a> he planned to resign and run for higher office. <\/p>\n

Afterward, the mayor asked council members to discuss the benefits of partnering with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> when word broke that Police Chief Daniel Comeaux had turned down a $25 million offer from the federal agency to reimburse the cost of local law enforcement\u2019s involvement in the 287(g) program. <\/p>\n

The move drew national attention, and several Dallas residents attended a City Council meeting Wednesday to critique his move and urge council members not to collaborate with ICE. It is unclear if any of the recent events are connected to Johnson\u2019s absence. <\/p>\n

Everton Bailey Jr. contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hours after appearing at a South Dallas news conference, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson was scheduled to speak alongside…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":327401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,14840,14841,80,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-328557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-city-council","11":"tag-dallas-city-hall","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115427971570126432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}