Exclusive | Yall Street mayor rips Mamdani over his Wall Street-bashing rhetoric: best thing ever to happen to Dallas

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.The meetings capitalized on what Johnson described as growing fatigue among New York executives over soaring taxes and open hostility from City Hall and Albany.“The mayor of Dallas, myself, the mayor of New York couldn’t be more diametrically opposed,” Johnson said.

“He is an avowed socialist, I’m an avowed capitalist.”Johnson accused Mamdani an...