“I got the clarity I needed,” Johnson said Wednesday morning.
After weeks of speculation, Sacramento also has clarity: Johnson will not seek an unprecedented third term as the city’s mayor. Despite talk that he might seek higher office, Johnson insisted during a brief news conference in his native Oak Park neighborhood that he has no job lined up after his current term ends next November. And he was even more adamant that recent scrutiny of sexual misconduct allegations against him from the past two decades played no role in his decision.
“I’ve never made a life decision (based on the allegations),” the mayor said, surrounded by former staffers, Oak Park residents and business leaders. “When it was time to run for office in the first place (in 2008), I would have never run if those allegations were something that concerned me.”
