Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Monday night that the Democrat lawmakers who fled to Washington DC to prevent a vote on two voter integrity bills will be arrested upon their return.
Earlier Monday, at least 58 Democrats left Austin in two private jets- chartered at a cost of $100,000- according to the Daily Mail…
Gov. Abbott told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that “once they step back into the state of Texas, they will be arrested and brought to the Texas capital and we will be conducting business.”
“Isn’t that the most un-Texan thing you have ever heard? Texans running from a fight?” he asked.
“They are quitters. It’s like during a football game or baseball game taking their equipment when they are way behind and just leaving the field. That is not the way that Texans do things,” the governor added. Read more…