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| | Gardner is married to the former Deborah Ann "Debbie" Walker (born May 19, 1957).<ref name=tgg>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/gardner-announces-minden-mayoral-bid/|title=Gardner announces Minden mayoral bid|publisher=''The Minden Press-Herald''|date=July 16, 2018|accessdate=July 18, 2018}}</ref> | | Gardner is married to the former Deborah Ann "Debbie" Walker (born May 19, 1957).<ref name=tgg>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/gardner-announces-minden-mayoral-bid/|title=Gardner announces Minden mayoral bid|publisher=''The Minden Press-Herald''|date=July 16, 2018|accessdate=July 18, 2018}}</ref> |
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| − | | name=Terry Lamar Gardner
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| − | | office=[[Mayor]]-elect of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], [[Louisiana]]
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| − | '''Terry Lamar Gardner''', known as '''TG Gardner''' (born May 18, 1954), is a [[business]]man who is the incoming [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[mayor]] of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]], [[Louisiana]], the fourthmember of his party to hold the position since 1966. A victor by thirty-seven votes, Gardner assumes office on January 1, 2019.
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| − | A native of [[Shreveport]], Gardner is the only mayor in Minden who previously lost three races for the city council before becoming mayor. In 2003, running as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], he lost a council raceto incumbent Republican Robert Drew White (born October 28, 1966), the son of a former Minden city attorney and the grandson of a state representative descended from one of the earliest families in Webster Parish. In 2006, still a Democrat, he lost the council race to Republican MarvinThomas "Tommy" Davis (born September 29, 1942), his predecessor as mayor. In 2014, running for the first time as a Republican, Gardner was defeated, 64 to 36 percent, by fellow Republican Michael Scott "Mike" Toland (born October 28, 1959), who did not seek reelection to the council in 2018.
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| − | When Mayor Davis stepped down after five years in the position, Gardner ran against the only Democrat in the race, William Kerry "Winky" Newer (born June 4, 1962), an [[Oklahoma]] native who relocated to Mindenas a nine-year-old in 1971 and is the previous long-term municipal recreation director. Newer said that had he been elected he would seek to strengthen municipal financial growth." I will continue our attempts to lower the electrical rates by all means possible.We must continue our effort to attract new industry and business to our area," he said.
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| − | Gardner is married to the former Deborah Ann "Debbie" Walker (born May 19, 1957).<ref name=tgg>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/gardner-announces-minden-mayoral-bid/|title=Gardner announces Minden mayoral bid|publisher=''TheMinden Press-Herald''|date=July 16, 2018|accessdate=July 18, 2018}}</ref> Gardner said that he opposes increasing municipal fees and taxes and would if elected instead seek to upgrade the municipal infrastructure through the hiring of a full-time grants writer, whowould seek revenues from outside sources.<ref name=tgg/>
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| − | In a campaign characterized primarily by the aggressive display of yard signs, Gardner emerged victorious over Newer, 2,164 to 2,127. Turnout was 53.7 percent of registered voters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Graphical|title=ElectionReturns|date=November 6, 2018|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=November 28, 2018}}</ref>
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