Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan is running for reelection in 2025.
Vaughan said that she wasn’t ready to make an official announcement about 2025, but when asked if she was going to run for reelection Vaughan said, “My plan is to run again.”
Vaughan said, “We’ve got so much in the works right now, we need continuity. It’s not the place for people to train on the job.”
The Toyota battery plant at the Greensboro Randolph Megasite and Boom Supersonic at the Piedmont Triad International Airport are two of the big projects mentioned by Vaughan.
Vaughan was first elected mayor in 2013, defeating incumbent Mayor Robbie Perkins. With that 2013 election, Vaughan ended a six-year stretch of one-term mayors.
Current City Councilmember and Mayor Pro Tem Yvonne Johnson was elected as Greensboro’s first black mayor in 2007. Keith Holliday, who served as mayor from 2001 to 2007, did not run for reelection and Johnson had no trouble getting elected.
In 2009, in what is one of the biggest upsets in Greensboro municipal election history, Johnson ran for a second term and was defeated by Bill Knight.
While Greensboro municipal elections are nonpartisan, the political affiliation of candidates is a factor in the election. Knight is a Republican and, counting Knight, the voters elected six Republicans to the City Council in 2009. They also elected Vaughan to an at-large seat on the City Council.
In 2011, Robbie Perkins, also a Republican, defeated Knight’s bid for reelection.
Vaughan won two-year terms as mayor in 2013 and 2015 and then, after voters approved a change to four years, won four-year terms in 2017 and what should have been 2021.
The 2021 City Council election was postponed, first because the US Census data was released late due to COVID restrictions. Then it was delayed again by the state legislature. So the 2021 election was finally held on July 26, 2022.
In the 2022 election, Vaughan faced her toughest opponent since defeating Perkins in 2013. Vaughan defeated former District 3 City Councilmember Justin Outling by less than 500 votes out of over 32,900 votes cast.
Vaughan was first elected to the City Council in 1997 as the District 4 city councilmember, won reelection in 1999 and did not run for reelection in 2001.
After taking eight years off to be at home with her daughter, Catherine, in 2009 Vaughan reentered the political arena and won an at large seat on the City Council and served until she ran for mayor in 2013.
God help us all!!!!
Wanna be queen. Please pack your bags and go on to DC. They deserve you Greensboro doesn’t want you.
EVERYONE on the city & county councils needs to go, including you.
Why punish us anymore. Haven’t you and you liberal woke democrats screwed Greensboro enough
Up front, not getting my vote.
Why not just elect her dictator for life? Have we not suffered enough?
Mandate Mayor is looking for a lifetime position with unlimited slush funds for her cabal. Boom and Toyota battery factory are in fact not in Greensboro. Her commands and Mandates will eventually run her out of office when the infrastructure of our water systems and roads continue to errode and our police force is systematically dismantled. Such a sad ineffective leader….unless you are her supporter or member of her peanut gallery.
Alex,
Don’t be too sure. Word is they are in the process of finding a way to annex those locations
Damn you Pleasant Garden for standing in the Queen’s way.
Literally called the Greensboro-Randolph mega site. Greensboro won the bid dunce not liberty LOL
Don’t think we can take another four years of Nancy or the test of this council. They are as near to a Socialist council we can get. The Republican better get their act together or it will be the same old, same old with Tax and spend with no thought of the tax payers. Time for Nancy to move on!
If you think republicans can win in Guilford county you are truly fooling yourselves!
And the crowd roars!
She must go! Term Limits would solve this problem. She said she would not run again last election but did. Lying like the dems and now she wants to run again. Glad I left GSO long ago. Crime, taxes, etc.
The current council that have been in offices c over one term need to go. They are feeling like the city money belongs to them to do with as they please.
Out! Us citizens will need to work together to remove the group .
Our mayor is interested in more taxes, which means to spend more on her supporters, which means we all get shafted.
Let this be a warning. . . .if Nancy runs again, I hope she has one Republican challenger, not two or three since that dilutes the votes against her. She would have lost the last election if the write-in candidate had not run. Think about that!
Good point. The last-minute write-in guy knew he would spoil Outling’s chances. Why did he do that with no chance of personally winning? A follow up on that question is surely warranted.
Voters have had several chances to oust Vaughn but have failed to do so. Vaughn benefits from low voter turnout and lack of educated voters. What is needed is term limits. The NC Constitution would have to be changed through the NC Legislature. The process could start with a petition through change.org. When a predetermined number of signatures has been reached, the petition could be presented to the NC Legislature. Vaughn states continuity is needed. Apparently, Vaughn does not understand the definition of continuity.
That’s great news!! Way to go! I look forward to voting for you again! What a win for Greensboro!!
Are you one of the uneducated groups?
She’s still got taxes to raise and money to spend.