| Article: | NEWS DIGEST IDAHO A month into office, Idaho’s Otter governs from his gut BOISE (AP) — As a freshly minted lieutenant governor, C.L. ‘‘Butch’’ Otter caused a furor 20 years ago by vetoing a bill lifting Idaho’s drinking age to 21 from 19. Lawmakers passed it to keep the feds in Washington, D.C., from denying highway payments. Gov. Cecil Andrus had left town, and Otter, a 44-year-old just two months on the job, took a populist swipe at ‘‘usurpation ... of Idaho’s sovereign power by the Congress’’ — his words at the time. |
