Under the hood the editor provides a getcontent method, the integration doesn't provide an access point that I can easily find. However the implementation is rather simple.
TinyMCE has the following code to convert it's html to text:
In: jquery.tinymce.js:
... t.getContent().replace(/])*>/g, "") ...
Which basically is just a javascript regex replacement, do the same in your C# code, and then decode the html.
Here is a sample controller:
public class TinyController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(TinyMCEModelJQuery model)
{
var foo = model.Content;
Regex regex = new Regex("])*>");
var htmlPlainText = regex.Replace(foo, string.Empty);
var plainText = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(htmlPlainText);
// do what you need with plainText
return View();
}