Friday, April 6, 2012

Governor, welder: Otter, Idaho's chief executive, completes his CWI ...

Idaho Gov. Otter completed his CWI welding class Thursday, but doesn’t plan on a career change.

“I couldn’t get a job,” said Otter.

He does now have confidence, he said, he won’t be ruining any more horse trailers.

Otter could weld steel, but wanted to learn the tougher art of aluminum welding.

He decided to take the two-day-a-week class after a mishap with his horse trailer.

“I started out with a little hole, trying to patch it one day, and when I ended up the horse could walk through.”

The College of Western Idaho class taught by Brett Van Buskirk was on the Boise State University campus. It finished Thursday.

Otter said he’s proud to have passed the “destructive test.”

“After you weld something together, they put it in a vice and then they get a linebacker-looking guy to come in with a big sledgehammer,” Otter said. “I haven’t had a weld tear now for about three weeks.”

Otter showed off several welds to reporters in his office last week, saying, “Look at those beads!”

© 2012 Idaho Statesman

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