Secretary of State: Tapio Officially Certified for South Dakota Congressional Primary
(Wednesday, March 28, 2018) GOP Congressional Candidate, Neal Tapio has been officially certified for the June primary election, easily surpassing the signature verification requirement necessary to make the ballot. Tapio submitted a total of 2,959 signatures via nominating petition, 2,494 of which were accepted and certified by the office of the Secretary of State. Just over 1,900 certified signatures were required to become a certified candidate.
“I want to thank the dedicated army of supporters who completed this task on a purely volunteer basis,” Tapio said. “It means a lot to know that so many people sacrificed their time and effort to contribute to my campaign in this way and that our message is resonating with so many people across South Dakota who are fed up with the business as usual status quo of the GOP establishment in this state and across the nation,” Tapio said.
“The era of the career politician is over in this nation and I believe people in South Dakota realize that it’s time for citizens with real experience and a track record of success at a very high level of business and private enterprise to face issues head on and to bring real solutions to the problems and challenges facing America,” Tapio said.
Tapio, who served as President Donald Trump’s State Director during the 2016 campaign says petition gathering process revealed once again that the President’s anti-establishment message continues to resonate with South Dakotans who are tired of the long succession of establishment politicians who say all the right things at home but then go to Washington D.C. and serve as rubber stamps for the mainstream GOP leadership. Tapio says he looks forward to bringing his background of business success and social conservative principles to Washington in support of a populist resurgence that rewrote the electoral map in 2016.
“The Republican Establishment both here and in Washington is so afraid to tackle tough issues that they have done little but serve as controlled opposition to the globalist agenda that is destroying America’s future,” Tapio said.
“The American people are ready for leadership that puts America first and preserves the prosperity and quality of life that was created by a devotion to faith, family, freedom and free enterprise, but that has been compromised by decades of interventionist foreign policy, crony capitalism and socialism pushed at the highest levels of government,”
“It’s time we vigorously defend the greatness of America again. I am more than ready to answer that call.”
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I’ll start reading his press releases as soon as I finish “War & Peace”
Congrations, Senatstor Tapio!
*Senator
Since he helped Trump maybe Trump will come here and campaign for him. It would do him a world of good. Never know it might put him over the top. He is anti illegal, anti refugee, anti spending, doesn’t dance around questions. Yep if somehow he could get Trump to SD to campaign for him it could happen. I’d say more of a chance than most gave Trump to be president.
If they were coming here to support him they’d be here already.
None of committee or ‘real” Trump supporters could get campaign materials nor signs from Tapio during Trump running. In fact, many South Dakotans in Party circles were Cruz supporters. No, No one person helped Trump get elected in South Dakota. The grassroots groundswell elected him.
After all, it worked so well for Roy Moore and Rick Saccone! Trump’s history of backing losers bodes well for this clown.
What will be weird is when he watches Ivanka and Donald stump for Noem and they don’t even mention his name.
The election is 67 days away. Other than blognerds like us, no one has ever heard of him. Plus, he says he’s not going to advertise much. So, are they all just supposed to watch for a bright star in the eastern sky and come to him? Ignore the fact that he’s way over the edge further to the right than the average republican… he’s still got about 7% name ID. Trump had about 95% name ID on the first day of his campaign. Game, set, match.
He’s a loser.
Exactly! I asked a few people who I know that vote in every election and they’ve never heard the name Tapio. They could tell me Johnson or Krebs though. I don’t see him swaying the election to Dusty or Shantel either way. Tapio’s message is essentiallt roadblock while the other two are get things done.
This would be fun to watch if Tapio were able to get a Trump endorsement and Trump makes a campaign stop for him. Besides Tapio’s fear mongering attention seeking antics turning it into a contest of who can greater pledge their loyalty to President Trump.