‘Perception of instability’: Professor explains risk of heavy turnover in San Antonio mayor’s office

Five staff members have left Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ office in less than five months — some of them within days.

And whatever may be behind the turnover, a political science expert says it’s not a good look.

With departures including Jones’ first chief of staff and two short-lived spokesmen, the chairman of the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Department of Political Science and Geography, Professor Jon Taylor, said the rate of turnover since Jones took office in mid-June suggests instability.

“This is not trying to disparage the mayor, but it begs the question about ‘What exactly is going on?’” Taylor said.

“I can make a joke here about the Hogwarts analogy that professors for the Defense Against the Dark Arts last longer than people in the mayor’s office,” he said in a reference