Mihaela Pleșa

Representative Mihaela Plesa is a lifelong Texan who is proud to serve the residents of Texas House District 70, which covers parts of Dallas, Plano, Richardson, and Allen. She is the first-generation daughter of Romanian immigrants who fled Eastern Europe to pursue the American Dream. Representative Plesa is proud to be the first democratic woman elected to represent Collin County in the Texas Legislature and the first Romanian-American elected in the great state of Texas. Now in her second term as State Representative, Plesa was elected the Vice Chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus and appointed Vice Chair of the House Committee on Pensions, Investments, and Financial Services. She also serves on the Elections Committee and was recently awarded the Outstanding Democratic Woman award from the Texas Democratic Women. Her priorities currently include fully funding our schools, reducing property taxes, and improving public safety. During her first Legislative Session, Representative Plesa passed legislation to crack down on illegal street racing, made it easier for seniors to receive IDs, and increased funding for ECI (Early Childhood Intervention) by $6.2 million, the first…