Kevin Paul Eltife was born on March 1,1959 and is an American businessman and former politician from Tyler, Texas.
12 Facts About Kevin Eltife
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Kevin Eltife was sworn in on August 15,2004, after winning a special election to represent District 1.
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Kevin Eltife declined to seek re-election in 2016 and was succeeded in office by fellow Republican Bryan Hughes.
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Kevin Eltife is a Lebanese American; all of his grandparents immigrated to the United States from Lebanon.
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Kevin Eltife's father died when he was under two years old.
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Kevin Eltife is the owner and operator of Kevin Eltife Properties, a commercial real estate company.
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Kevin Eltife first entered politics in 1991, when he ran for a city council seat.
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Kevin Eltife 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.
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Kevin Eltife was a strong proponent of raising sales taxes and reducing property taxes.
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Kevin Eltife was considered one of the most liberal of the nineteen 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.
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In 2015, Kevin Eltife announced that he would not seek reelection to the Senate in 2016.
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Kevin Eltife 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.