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Save Texas Reps » Terry Keel, Bill Killer: "You’d think killing the ethics bill would be enough for one session. But not for our Rep. Keel, he personally saw to it that Texas judges didn’t get their first pay raise in six years. Way to go Terry. Worst. Legislator. In. Texas.

Did the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court really threaten to recruit opponents for Austin state Rep. Terry Keel and Houston state Sen. Rodney Ellis if the state’s judges didn’t get a pay raise because of a tiff between the two legislators?

Keel says Wallace Jefferson did just that in a phone call Sunday.

“He said he’d see to it that I’d have opposition and Senator Rodney Ellis would have opposition” if the pay-raise legislation was blocked.

Keel killed the pay-raise bill with a last-minute point of order in a fit of pique. He accused Ellis and Sen. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, of double-crossing him on a bill Keel had authored on the qualifications required of attorneys appointed to represent defendants in death-penalty cases. Duncan was the author of the judicial pay-raise"