TOM DUNLAP ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR STATE SENATE

Keeline, WY, June 1, 2010:  Longtime business manager and Wyoming resident Tom Dunlap announced his candidacy for Wyoming Senate on Tuesday.  Dunlap is running for the Wyoming 1st Senate District seat currently held by Republican Senator Charles Townsend, who has held the seat since 2005 and is not seeking reelection.

Tom Dunlap has worked as a manager for a variety of businesses in several industries.  Working as the administrator for Teton Medical Center and Glacier View Hospital in Montana and CEO of West Park Hospital in Wyoming, Tom has overseen all levels of hospital operations, from financing and facility planning to staff recruitment, training, and retention.  In the past, Tom has been hired to high-level positions specializing in transportation, property management, staff training, advanced education programs, and management consultation, giving him unique insight into effective organization and planning.

Since his childhood growing up in Niobrara County, Tom has maintained an active role in the agricultural business by being involved in the day-to-day operations of both his family’s ranch and at the Chimney Rock Ranch.

Tom has also been an employee of Union Pacific Railroad for the past 12 years.  He currently works as an engineer/conductor out of Bill, Wyoming.  His job duties include insuring the safe operations of the coal trains coming out of the Powder River Basin and training and mentoring new hire conductors. 

Tom’s highest priority in running for office is to keep businesses and jobs in Wyoming and to promote and encourage the formation of new businesses within the state.  Tom recognizes the particular problem of five hospitals in District 1 and Wyoming’s nine other critical access hospitals and will strive to keep these valuable industries fully and properly funded in Wyoming by working with administrators to meet the requirements for federal Medicare funding.  Tom will also work to save state resources and improve and streamline Wyoming waste management industries by bringing small county landfills up-to-date and into compliance with current regulations; serving the dual purposes of conserving Wyoming tax money and working within the policy of consolidating waste in the landfills of larger communities.  Finally, Tom understands the importance of developing alternative sources of energy to meet Wyoming’s needs as well as providing for a healthy and safe environment.  Toward that end, Tom has a plan for several alternative energy proposals based on his years of business and industry experience, as well as his expert analysis of the advances made by other states, that will help ensure an adequate energy supply to meet all of Wyoming’s residential, commercial, and industrial needs without the burden of cumbersome bureaucracy or stifling regulation.

In addition to these core priorities, Tom is committed to the core principles of fiscal responsibility that are so critical to responsible government.  Tom believes strongly in the creating and maintaining an environment supportive of private enterprise by supporting only essential government regulation and providing cuts to unnecessary taxes and spending wherever possible.