Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pulls Sen. Kel Seliger’s chairmanship after Seliger suggested Patrick aide kiss his “back end”

Senator Kel Seliger, Chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee listens to testimony from Chancellors of Texas Universities, including Lee Jackson, Chancellor of the University of North Texas System. Laura SkeldingState Sen. Kel Seliger has been stripped of his post as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, in an escalation of a feud with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who presides over the upper chamber.Announced Tuesday afternoon, the demotion caps a weekend spat between Seliger, an Amarill