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Texas Scorecard by Erin Anderson June 25, 2019

Free-market economist Lydia Ortega encourages her new neighbors to avoid the trap of big government.

Native Texans aren’t the only ones proclaiming, “Don’t California My Texas!”

Lydia Ortega—a professor of economics and “California refugee” who moved to Plano three months ago—has already begun talking with her new neighbors about the importance of maintaining free markets and individual liberty to avoid the harmful consequences of California’s big-government policies.

“This is my home now,” Ortega told members of the Hispanic Republican Club of North Texas Monday night. “I don’t want to make the same mistakes.”

Ortega said what sets Texans apart are three attributes Californians have lost:

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