Otter won't back plan to raise highway funds

BOISE (AP) - Gov. Butch Otter said he won't get behind a plan to raise revenue for roads and bridges without a show of support from the public.

Otter spelled out his conditions at a meeting of the Idaho Associated General Contractors in Garden City Friday.

The Republican governor is determined not to repeat his experience of two years ago with the public education initiative "Students Come First." That ambitious education overhaul was narrowly approved in the Legislature but overturned by voters the following year.