Mayor Johnson Breaks A Major Campaign Promise

As a candidate for mayor, Brandon Johnson repeatedly pledged he would not raise property taxes during his first term in office. “I’m not going to raise property taxes. I’m the only person running in this race who made a commitment to that,” he said during a Block Club interview in March 2023. “For my first term, we’re not raising property taxes.” But facing a series of tough decisions over how to close a nearly $1 billion spending gap in 2025, now-Mayor Brandon Johnson is going back on that promise.