Rep. Hunt announces plans

For the Telegram
Posted 4/22/20

NEWCASTLE – State representative Hans Hunt has announced plans to run for reelection for the District 2 seat he’s held since 2011.

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Rep. Hunt announces plans

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NEWCASTLE – State representative Hans Hunt has announced plans to run for reelection for the District 2 seat he’s held since 2011.
“I have decided to stand for reelection this year,” Hunt said in a press release.  “It is a great honor and privilege to serve the constituents of House District 2, and I humbly ask for your vote again.”  
If reelected, Hunt said he hopes to continue work on ongoing issues pertinent to eastern Wyoming and rural Wyoming in general.  Some of the issues he would like to focus on include the economic expansion and development of locally-sourced agriculture; more stable funding for rural critical access hospitals, and a more equitable local tax collection method on projects such as pipelines, among others.  

Hunt also said the legislature will be addressing the issue of redistricting in the interim after the 2021 session, hoping he can lend a seasoned voice to the redistricting process.  
“The issue of redistricting comes around every ten years following each census,” Hunt said in the release.  “Having experienced the process as a freshman legislator in the 2011 interim and the 2012 session, I found that it is very difficult for legislators without seniority to have a meaningful say in the process.  
“It is my hope that the rural districts will be proportioned along county lines as closely as possible, and that rural counties are not divided up among multiple districts,” he said. “When this happens, it makes it very difficult for less populated counties to have a voice in the legislature.”  
Hunt, currently serving in his fifth term in the Wyoming House of Representatives, has chaired the House Agriculture, State and Public Lands, and Water Resources Committee since 2016.