State of Texas
State Senator, District 28
Riley Rodriquez
Democratic- On ballot as
- Riley Rodriquez
- Current role
- Performance coach and owner of a small service business in Abilene (per campaign)
- Background
- Finishing a degree at Texas Tech (per candidate)
- Grew up in the district (per campaign)
- Father was a ranch hand, mother a probation officer (per campaign)
- Experience
- Has worked as a cowboy, an oilfield hand and a business owner (per campaign)
- Top priorities
- "Home hardening exemptions and grants to bring down homeowners insurance premiums"
- "Remove energy sales tax exemptions for data centers"
- "Create a rural water capture program to protect Texas groundwater"
- "tax credits and grants for doctors, PAs, nurse practitioners and specialists that set up a practice in rural communities"
- Tidbits
- Abortion: No public statement found
- Border and immigration: No public statement found
- Guns: No public statement found
- Public schools and vouchers: In a Lubbock Avalanche-Journal questionnaire (Feb. 2026), said he will not "sell out my rural district for Big tech corporations, public funding to private schools"
- Property taxes: In a Lubbock Avalanche-Journal questionnaire (Feb. 2026): "I would stop putting a bandaid on property taxes by using exemptions"
- Endorsements
- Panhandle Democrats
- Campaign website
- rileyforsenate.org
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