Kevin Eltife

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Kevin Paul Eltife (born March 1, 1959)[1] is an American businessman and former politician from Tyler, Texas. A Republican, served in the Texas Senate from 2004 through 2017. He was sworn in on August 15, 2004, after winning a special election to represent District 1. He declined to seek re-election in 2016 and was succeeded in office by fellow Republican Bryan Hughes.

Early life and education

Eltife was born in Tyler, Texas, and grew up there. He is a Lebanese American; all four of his grandparents were born in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States.[2] His father died when he was under two years old.[2]

Business and political career

Eltife is the owner and operator of Eltife Properties, a commercial real estate company.[2]

He first entered politics in 1991, when he ran for a city council seat. He subsequently served as mayor of Tyler for two terms (six years).[2]

He defeated Paul Sadler in the special election for Texas Senate; 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 state Senator and former Lieutenant Governor Bill Ratliff of Mount Pleasant resigned with less than a year remaining in his state Senate term.

Eltife was a strong proponent of raising sales taxes and reducing property taxes.[2] He wishes to use additional sales tax revenue to reduce the debt of the Texas Department of Transportation.[2]

He was 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.[3] Of these five senators, Deuell lost a runoff election on May 27, 2014, and Carona was narrowly defeated for re-nomination on March 4.[4] Duncan, meanwhile, resigned from the Senate to become chancellor of the Texas Tech University System.

In 2015, Eltife announced that he would not seek reelection to the Senate in 2016.[5] He was succeeded in office by Republican state Representative Bryan Hughes of Mineola, who defeated Republican state Representative David Simpson of Longview in the Republican primary and automatically won the seat because there was no Democratic opponent.[6]

In January 2017, Governor Greg Abbott appointed Eltife, along with two others, as a regent of the University of Texas System.[7]

Electoral history

2006

Texas general election, 2006: Senate District 1[8]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Kevin P. Eltife 109,450 83.13 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Jason Albers 22,211 16.87 Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 87,239 66.26 Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout 131,661 Script error: No such module "String".
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2004

Special runoff election, 15 August 2004: Senate District 1, Unexpired term[9]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Kevin Eltife 46,437 51.86 Script error: No such module "String".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Paul Sadler 43,103 48.14 Script error: No such module "String".
Majority 3,334 3.72 Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout 89,540 Script error: No such module "String".
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Special election, 12 August 2004: Senate District 1, Unexpired term[11]
Party Candidate Votes % <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Script error: No such module "Political party". Kevin Eltife 24,919 36.01
Script error: No such module "Political party". Bill Godsey 502 0.73
Script error: No such module "Political party". Tommy Merritt 14,786 21.36
Script error: No such module "Political party". Paul Sadler 27,339 39.50
Script error: No such module "Political party". Daryl Ware[12] 480 0.69
Script error: No such module "Political party". Jerry Yost 1,180 1.71
Turnout 69,206 Script error: No such module "String".

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References

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External links

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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Member of the Texas Senate
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check President pro tempore of the Texas Senate
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