June 26, 2015      4:27 PM
Keffer on retirement: It was just time and not because of any electoral threat
"I think hot seats in hell are reserved for people who knowingly mislead people for their own gain," Keffer said of groups like Empower Texans
Retiring
Texas
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Keffer, R-Eastland, pulled no punches this week during a live
radio interview when he was asked about the just-released Empower Texans rankings
of legislators funded by Midland oilman Tim
Dunn. Keffer also said his planned exit from politics is not because of any
fear that he might not be able to win reelection if that’s the path he had chosen
to pursue.
“It’s
all a sham,” Keffer said of the Empower Texans rankings while he was on West
Texas Drive radio show in Lubbock.
“There’s
no way to get around it,” Keffer said, adding that the group directed by Dunn’s
spokesman Michael Quinn Sullivan
favors those who opposed Speaker Joe
Straus, plain and simple. "Everybody else is obviously going to be
down in failing grades and poor grades," he said.
By Scott Braddock
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