Victoria Neave Criado (born December 29, 1980) is an American attorney and a Democratic member of the

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for District 107 in

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. In the

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held on November 8, 2016, she unseated

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Representative

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in the most expensive Texas House race of the 2016 cycle. Neave was sworn into office on January 10, 2017. Neave was arrested in June 2017 on a

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charge after she allegedly crashed her BMW into a tree within district 107 at 11:30 p.m. She allegedly repeatedly told arresting officers that "I love you and I want to fight for you, and I invoke the Fifth Amendment." Neave said after her arrest that she was "deeply sorry, and will accept the consequences of my actions, and will work to make this right." As a local attorney and legislator, concerns were expressed at favoritism by police, prosecutors and local media towards Neave. Neave was reelected to her second term in the

held on November 6, 2018, when she defeated the Republican candidate, Deanna Maria Metzger, 28,923 (57.1 percent) to 21,770 (42.9 percent). Neave was selected as one of seventeen speakers to jointly deliver the

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address at the

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