Senate President Pro Tem David Long announced today that Sen. Phil Boots (R-Crawfordsville) will replace Sen. Dennis Kruse as Chairman of the Pensions and Labor Committee.  (Kruse recently took over the Education Committee from retired Senator Teresa Lubbers.)

Boots is a member of the Labor committee but was not the ranking majority member who would normally be next in line for chairman.  That’s Senator Brent Waltz (R-Greenwood.)

Waltz has a history of going his own way rather than following GOP leadership.  Sometimes what goes around, comes around.