Kathy Behringer (Garner Town Council, North Carolina, candidate 2025)
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Kathy Behringer ran for election for Garner Town Council in North Carolina. She was on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source]
Behringer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Kathy Behringer provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 5, 2025:
- Birth place: Greensboro, North Carolina
- High school: Walter Hines Page High School
- Bachelor's: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1971
- Gender: Female
- Religion: Christian
- Profession: Retail Manager
- Incumbent officeholder: Yes
- Campaign slogan: With Unity and Action, we are building a stronger Garner
- Campaign website
Elections
General election
General election for Garner Town Council (2 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Garner Town Council on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | ||
Kathy Behringer (Nonpartisan)  | ||
| Mike McIver (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Gra Singleton (Nonpartisan) | ||
 | Kelvin Stallings (Nonpartisan) | |
| Patricia T. Uzzell (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Rex Whaley (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Election results
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Kathy Behringer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Behringer's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am Kathy Behringer. I have had the honor of serving on the Garner Town Council for the past 20 years and am seeking re-election. I have been married to Jeff for 52 years, have 6 children - 5boys, 1 girl - and 8 grandchildren.
- I want to support reasonable, balanced growth in Garner, to include partnerships with builders and developers to achieve our mutual goals.
- I want to study and implement affordable housing initiatives with correct, accurate information regarding the needs in Garner, keeping in perspective that Garner already has a higher percentage of affordable housing than other Wake County municipalities .
- I want to continue to promote the many facets of economic development, to include actively seeking and encouraging appropriate businesses to come to Garner, to continue to support initiatives to improve Garner's visual appeal as well as being mindful of keeping our tax burden balanced. Garner routinely receives a "clean opinion" from our financial auditors, we maintain a reserve amount of 30% of our operating budget though the Local Government Commission only requires that municipalities keep 8% of their operating budge in reserve, and we were able to meet all of our financial obligations in the 2025-2026 approved budget without a tax increase.
I am extremely passionate about elected officials behaving in a respectful and civil manner, regardless of the topic at hand and I want our citizens to exhibit that same respect and civility. In the spring of 2024, the League of Municipalities conducted a training seminar on the topic of Commitment to Civility and requested that council members in all North Carolina municipalities participate in the same training. Garner council members completed the training in a timely manner and when I attended the League conference this past spring, I learned that Garner was one of only 7 municipalities that had followed through with the civility training. I was very disappointed that respect and civility did not appear to be important statewide.
Democracy is quoted as "being of the people, by the people, for the people." This office gives those on the local municipal level a chance to be heard at the state level. We can listen to our constituents and take their concerns to our representatives at the state level.
Willingness to listen to our citizens, willingness to answer their questions and give explanations and above all, to be respectful of all opinions and input, whether or not one agrees or disagrees with those opinions.
To make decisions based on facts, not feelings. To be informed regarding all issues on which we are called on to make decisions. To treat everyone with respect, whether they are respectful or not. To remember, above all, that our form of government is a democracy, which means everyone has a voice (the opportunity to vote/be heard) but not everyone "gets their way" and the majority vote determines the course of action.
"Lord, Change My Attitude"
I had polio as a child, before there was a vaccine. I spent 2 1/2 years in bed and then walked with crutches and a brace until I was 7 years old, and continued to need a brace for some years after that. I had 4 corrective surgeries, 3 of which were successful, one was not. I was often stared at, pointed at and left out of activities because I was "crippled." But because I had an amazing pediatrician, an amazing surgeon and dedicated, faithful parents, I was able to move beyond all those limitations. My mother never allowed me to say "i can't." She told me constantly, " you're as smart as anybody, you can do anything you want to do." My father used to tell me "get an education, make something of yourself, don't let anybody else run your life." Apparently I believed them! learned to roller skate when I was 8 years old, brace and all and I became a class officer for the first time in the third grade - president! I held various class officer positions over my school years, graduated from UNCG with a degree in psychology, worked with special needs adults, testing them for competitive employment and then after marrying and having 6 children, became involved in local government because I wanted to "make my community a better place."
Yes. However, excellent training is available at the School of Government for newly elected officials and that training, along with the help of local town staff and fellow council members can be very helpful to a newly elected official as he/she navigates being new to the council.
Previous public service of some sort would be extremely helpful, whether it is participating in a Community Watch program, serving on a local advisory board, or being a member of a service club such as the Rotary Club or the Woman's Club.
Positions for this office are voted on by the citizens, which gives those citizens an avenue for being heard and for practicing the principles of democracy.
Home Builders Association, Garner Police Chief Tom Moss, retired, Judy Bass, former Garner Town Clerk, Alisha Puckett, current president of the Garner Woman's Club.
After many, many years of promoting, encouraging and pointing to art on display in other communities, I was finally able to get a public art initiative underway in Garner. In the words of famed artist Peter Max, "color makes people happy." When people are happy, they smile more and when we can smile we can work together more easily to accomplish our goals.
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See also
2025 Elections
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