Kevin Paul Eltife (born March 1, 1959)[1] is an American businessman and former politician from Tyler, Texas.
[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.
[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.
[6] In January 2017, Governor Greg Abbott appointed Eltife, along with two others, as a regent of the University of Texas System.