Edit: Butch & Inspector General

If anybody ought to be leading the crusade for Rep. John Rusche’s plan to install an independent inspector general to short-circuit waste, fraud and abuse in the state of Idaho, it ought to be the man at the top. After all, Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter presides over a state that is the subject of two - count them, two - U.S. Department of Justice investigations into how his administration screwed up multimillion-dollar contracts with his own campaign contributors. What’s it going to take for Otter to back the Lewiston Democrat’s initiative? Three federal investigations? A visit from “60 Minutes”?/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

Question: If the public doesn’t care how many scandals the Otter administration bumbles into, why should Butch?