INDIANAPOLIS — The absence of House Democrats during Gov. Mitch Daniels’ State of the State address has Indiana’s House Republican leader drawing a line in the sand in the battle over the proposed right-to-work measure.

“Today was a turning point,” state House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said after the address at the Capitol on Tuesday evening. “Had (the Democrats) been out three days, come back in and returned to business, that would probably have been the end of it. But with their vacating the chamber again today and rumors of them not being present the next day or two, that really does change the game.”

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