Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan has been busy this week.

A few days ago, she held a publicity event in downtown Greensboro with a couple of left-wing interest groups. The objective was to call for nonpartisan redistricting.

It is a matter of great wonderment that these parties did not exhibit nearly this level of concern during the many decades when the democratic socialists abused the process of redistricting in North Carolina. Partisan redistricting apparently became a problem only when the Republicans assumed control of the process. All of a sudden, it became the object of Nancy's newest crusade. Recall that she hadn't hardly uttered a peep regarding the issue when she was a Republican or an unaffiliated.

Their call at the publicity event for a non-partisan committee to handle redistricting is willfully naive. Human beings interjected into the process will inevitably attempt to manipulate the outcome; and some will prevail. All the staged high-minded concern expressed at the event was but a facade.

Then yesterday, Nancy held another publicity event-- this time with radical leftist state Attorney General Josh Stein. The topic was the opioid epidemic. Interestingly, the only legitimate role Nancy Vaughan has with respect to opioids is law enforcement. But most of us know the extent to which she has sought to undermine law enforcement in the city of Greensboro. So her stated concerns regarding the opioid epidemic are but vapid, empty speech because she has weakened the only weapon she legitimately has at her disposal.

These staged events enable our mayor to convince the gullible local population of the depth of her concerns regarding these issues. But the reality is that these events magically coincide with her political self-interest.