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Kevin Paul Eltife (born March 1, 1959)〔 〕 is a businessman from Tyler, Texas, who is a Republican member of the Texas Senate. 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. 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. Jones also found that these Republicans saw passage of 90 percent of the bills for which they voted.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Enrique Rangel, "Why state Sen. Kel Seliger has a Republican primary challenger," February 24, 2014 )〕 Of these five senators, Deuell lost a runoff election on May 27, 2014, and Carona was narrowly defeated for re-nomination on March 4.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Republican primary election returns, March 4, 2014 )〕 Duncan, meanwhile, resigned from the Senate to become chancellor of the Texas Tech University System. Eltife is a former mayor of Tyler and a former member of the Tyler City Council. Eltife will not seek reelection to the Senate in the primary election scheduled for March 1, 2016. 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. Hughes carries the backing of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, the presiding officer of the state Senate. ==Election history== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin Eltife」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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