Views: Texas' Governor thinks he can just wait out Democrats who've fled Texas while Republicans try to overhaul election laws that many say will make it harder to vote. He also said in an interview with KVUE yesterday that “As soon as they come back in the state of Texas, they will be arrested, they will be cabined inside the Texas capitol until they get their job done." Get back to work, but if you try to get back to work you'll be arrested. The logic of Republicans. Texas’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, has vowed to arrest Democrat lawmakers who have fled the state in an attempt to stop an overhaul of election laws that they say damages the right to vote, especially for communities of color.