Tillman For Texas
Bobby Tillman for Texas Senate District 3

A 6th generation Texan running to be East Texas's voice in Austin.

Tillman For Texas

Bobby Tillman is a sixth-generation Texan.

Serving The Community

Bobby Tillman is a 6th generation Texan who spent more than 40 years in the commercial flooring business and the last 15 raising beef cattle in East Texas. He's not a career politician. He's a working Texan who got tired of watching Austin ignore the people who live between the big cities, and decided to do something about it.

Bobby raises beef cattle in East Texas and has worked in the commercial flooring business.

Bobby's campaign for State Senator in Texas Senate District 3 is his first time running for public office. 

2026 Texas General Election

Economic Prosperity

Working families are getting squeezed from every direction, and Austin isn't listening. Here's where I'd start:

Affordable childcare, backed by a state savings account program families can count on by 2031. Real, sustained funding for our Volunteer Fire Departments, with mandates so the money doesn't dry up after one budget cycle. A minimum wage people can actually live on. Limits on corporations buying up houses, so homes stay in the hands of families instead of investment portfolios. And more apprenticeship programs, because a young person in East Texas shouldn't have to leave home to learn a trade and build a career.

Property and Water Rights

Nobody should lose their home over property taxes. I want to eliminate property taxes on residential homes and fully fund our schools with state money instead.

Proposes affordable childcare backed by a state savings-account program by 2031.

Supports a minimum wage that people can live on.

Proposes limits on corporations buying homes to keep more homes in family ownership.

Supports expanding apprenticeship programs so East Texans can train for trades and careers locally.

Proposes eliminating residential property taxes and fully funding schools with state money instead.

- Proposes affordable childcare backed by a state savings-account program by 2031.
- Supports a minimum wage that people can live on.
- Proposes limits on corporations buying homes to keep more homes in family ownership.
- Supports expanding apprenticeship programs so East Texans can train for trades and careers locally.
- Proposes eliminating residential property taxes and fully funding schools with state money instead.

Economy

Our kids deserve safe schools, and I support using National Guard assistance if desired working with local leaders and ISD under Title 32 to help make that happen. And our teachers deserve pay that matches the national level, funded by the state, not squeezed out of local budgets.

Proposes sustained state funding for volunteer fire departments, with mandates intended to prevent funding lapses after a budget cycle.

Supports National Guard assistance for school safety when requested by local leaders and independent school districts under Title 32.

- Proposes sustained state funding for volunteer fire departments, with mandates intended to prevent funding lapses after a budget cycle.
- Supports National Guard assistance for school safety when requested by local leaders and independent school districts under Title 32.

Public Safety

I support expanding Medicaid and Medicare, keeping our rural hospitals open, and growing telehealth so distance isn't a death sentence. Elderly and disabled Texans should have access to medical cannabis. And healthcare should be run as a service to people, not a profit center for shareholders.

Veterans

We lose 22 veterans a day to suicide. That is unacceptable, full stop.

More than 9 million veterans aren't using the benefits they earned, often because nobody helped them navigate the system. I'll work to change that: real mental health access for every veteran, job skills and training programs that lead somewhere, and access to medical cannabis for the veterans who need it. These folks kept their promise to us. Texas should keep its promise to them.

Healthcare

Nobody in Texas should go broke because they got sick, and nobody in East Texas should have to drive two hours to reach a hospital.

I support expanding Medicaid and Medicare, keeping our rural hospitals open, and growing telehealth so distance isn't a death sentence. Elderly and disabled Texans should have access to medical cannabis. And healthcare should be run as a service to people, not a profit center for shareholders.

Rights

I believe in the rights of all Texans: women's rights, human rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrants' rights, and yes, animal rights too.

Reproductive healthcare is a private matter between a woman and her doctor. The government has no business in that exam room.

Believes healthcare should be run as a service to people rather than a profit center for shareholders.

Supports mental-health access and job-skills training programs for veterans.

Supports medical-cannabis access for veterans, elderly Texans, and disabled Texans.

Supports expanding Medicaid and Medicare.

Said reproductive healthcare is a private matter between a woman and her doctor, and government has no role in the exam room.

- Believes healthcare should be run as a service to people rather than a profit center for shareholders.
- Supports mental-health access and job-skills training programs for veterans.
- Supports medical-cannabis access for veterans, elderly Texans, and disabled Texans.
- Supports expanding Medicaid and Medicare.
- Supports keeping rural hospitals open.
- Supports expanding telehealth services.
- Said reproductive healthcare is a private matter between a woman and her doctor, and government has no role in the exam room.

Healthcare

Education

Decisions about our schools should be made by the parents, teachers, and communities who know our kids, not by politicians in Austin. I'll fight to stop school vouchers, which drain money from the public schools most of our families depend on, and to raise the student allotment so every district gets its fair share.

Supports raising the student allotment so every school district receives its fair share.

Supports state-funded teacher pay at the national level rather than relying on local school budgets.

- Opposes school vouchers.
- Supports raising the student allotment so every school district receives its fair share.
- Supports state-funded teacher pay at the national level rather than relying on local school budgets.

Education

Water is life, and ours is under threat. Corporate investors are over-pumping our aquifers while rural counties can't afford to fight back. I'll work to create two Water Districts covering the areas where counties can't afford their own, East and West, so every community has the resources to protect its water, including in court.

Water is life, and ours is under threat. Corporate investors are over-pumping our aquifers while rural counties can't afford to fight back. I'll work to create two Water Districts covering the areas where counties can't afford their own, East and West, so every community has the resources to protect its water, including in court. We need to treat water as a life-sustaining resource, not just another commodity, and modernize the Rule of Capture to reflect that.

And we have to get a handle on data centers before they get a handle on us. That means real regulations: five-mile buffer zones from any home or livestock operation, no tax abatements or incentives, no NDAs hiding the deals from the public, and zero tolerance for pollution, noise, or forever chemicals in our water supply.

Proposes creating East and West water districts to help communities protect water resources, including through litigation.

Calls for modernizing the Rule of Capture to treat water as a life-sustaining resource.

Proposes data-center regulations including five-mile buffers, no tax incentives or nondisclosure agreements, and zero tolerance for pollution, noise, or water contamination.

- Proposes creating East and West water districts to help communities protect water resources, including through litigation.
- Calls for modernizing the Rule of Capture to treat water as a life-sustaining resource.
- Proposes data-center regulations including five-mile buffers, no tax incentives or nondisclosure agreements, and zero tolerance for pollution, noise, or water contamination.

Energy & the Environment

Rights

I believe in the rights of all Texans: women's rights, human rights, LGBTQ rights, immigrants' rights, and yes, animal rights too.

Reproductive healthcare is a private matter between a woman and her doctor. The government has no business in that exam room.

And none of these rights mean much without the right that protects all the others: the right to vote. I'll defend it for every Texan.

Pledges to defend every Texan's right to vote.

- Pledges to defend every Texan's right to vote.

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Bobby Tillman

- Supports mental-health access and job-skills training programs for veterans.
- Supports medical-cannabis access for veterans, elderly Texans, and disabled Texans.
- Supports expanding Medicaid and Medicare.
- Supports keeping rural hospitals open.
- Supports expanding telehealth services.
- Said reproductive healthcare is a private matter between a woman and her doctor, and government has no role in the exam room.

Bobby Tillman is from Texas. He has spent more than 40 years in the commercial flooring business and the last 15 raising beef cattle in East Texas.

Bobby spent more than 40 years in the commercial flooring business and has spent the last 15 years raising beef cattle in East Texas.

Bobby Tillman working Texan who got tired of watching Austin politicians ignore East Texas. This is his first time running for public office.

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Supports limiting corporations from purchasing homes.

Supports regulating data centers with buffer zones, no tax incentives, transparency, and strict environmental standards.

Supports eliminating property taxes on residential homes.

Supports providing sustained funding for Volunteer Fire Departments.

Supports access to medical cannabis for veterans.

Supports expanding Medicaid and Medicare, maintaining rural hospitals, and increasing telehealth services.

Supports abortion, saying "Reproductive healthcare is a private matter between a woman and her doctor. The government has no business in that exam room."

Opposes school vouchers, which are programs that allow families to use public school funds to access schools beyond their local option, including private schools.

Supports using National Guard assistance to ensure school safety and advocates for state-funded teacher salaries that match the national level.

Supports affordable childcare and a state savings account program for families by 2031.

As of July 22, 2026, Bobby Tillman’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Said, "And none of these rights mean much without the right that protects all the others: the right to vote. I'll defend it for every Texan."

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