How about … Otter for Ag secretary?

Given the on-and-off announcements about various prospective Trump appointees in recent days, it’s with some hesitance that I pass along this maybe-news: Idaho Gov. Butch Otter now is supposedly among the candidates being vetted for Secretary of Agriculture.

Otter is in San Diego at a Western Governors Association conference; I just spoke with Lt. Gov. Brad Little, who has been serving as acting governor this week while Otter’s out of state, and he said he’d just heard from Otter Communications Director Mark Warbis that Otter Press Secretary Jon Hanian had “confirmed that yes, the governor is being vetted.”

“This is the first I heard of it,” said Little, who would step up to become governor if Otter took a cabinet position. “That’s news to me”/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.