{"id":422251,"date":"2026-08-31T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422251\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:06:08","slug":"qa-meet-the-candidates-running-for-texas-house-district-70-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422251\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: Meet the candidates running for Texas House District 70 | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voters will choose between two candidates for the Texas House District 70 position this Nov. 3 election.<\/p>\n

What you need to know<\/p>\n

Democratic incumbent Mihaela Plesa is running against Republican candidate George Flint. Texas House District 70\u2019s representative serves<\/a> residents in parts of Plano, north Dallas, Richardson and Allen.<\/p>\n

Candidates were asked to keep responses within 50 words, answer teh questions provided and avoid attacking opponents. Answers may have been edited or cut to adhere to those guidelines, or for style and clarity. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order by last name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters will choose between two candidates for the Texas House District 70 position this Nov. 3 election. What…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2137,1242,39794,288,160,162,161,959,2332,146959,146958],"class_list":["post-422251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-2026-elections","tag-allen","tag-election-2026","tag-elections","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-richardson","tag-texas-house","tag-who-is-my-representative-plano","tag-who-is-running-for-texas-house-district-70"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}