Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 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. 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. Of these five senators, Deuell faces a runoff election on May 27, 2014, and Carona was narrowly defeated for re-nomination on March 4.Eltife is a former mayor of Tyler and a former member of the Tyler City Council.. }
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- Kevin_Eltife abstract "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. 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. Of these five senators, Deuell faces a runoff election on May 27, 2014, and Carona was narrowly defeated for re-nomination on March 4.Eltife is a former mayor of Tyler and a former member of the Tyler City Council.".