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University of Texas at Austin.
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Kevin Eltife
Edit Profilepolitician member of the Texas Senate
Career
He was sworn in on March 5, 2004, as a result of a special election to represent District 1. Eltife defeated Paul Sadler in the special election. In 2012, Sadler was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee against Ted Cruz for one of the two Texas seats in the United States Senate.
The position opened when Senator and former Lieutenant Governor Bill Ratliff of Mount Pleasant resigned with less than a year remaining in his Senate term.
Jones also found that these Republicans saw passage of 90 percent of the bills for which they voted. Of these five senators, Deuell lost a runoff election on May 27, 2014, and Carona was narrowly defeated for re-nomination on March 4.
Duncan, meanwhile, resigned from the Senate to become chancellor of the Texas Technical University System. Eltife will not seek reelection to the Senate in the primary election scheduled for March 1, 2016.
Hughes carries the backing of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, the presiding officer of the state Senate.
Most recent election
= 2006 Previous elections
= 2004 =.
Politics
Eltife is considered one of the most liberal of the nineteen (as of 2013) Texas Senate Republicans, along with Robert L. Duncan of Lubbock, Kel Seliger of Amarillo, Bob Deuell of Greenville, and John Carona of Dallas, according to an analysis by Mark P. Jones of the political science department at Rice University in Houston. Two area state representatives, Bryan Hughes of District 5, based in Mineola, and David Simpson of District 7, center about Longview, will seek the Republican nomination to succeed Eltife.
Membership
Eltife is a former mayor of Tyler and a former member of the Tyler City Council.
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