Tapio Announces Entrance into Congressional Race
With events in Watertown, Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Aberdeen Tuesday, Republican State Senator and Donald Trump State Campaign Director, Neal Tapio of Watertown officially enters the 2018 South Dakota congressional race, promising to expose the hypocrisy of establishment politicians rushing furiously to cast themselves as Trump populists. Tapio says his run for Congress is not a product of political ambition, but of a national need for real people to answer the call to public service and usher in what he sees as a potential American ‘Golden Age,’ of economic, social and cultural rebirth that has been jumpstarted by President Trump’s economic policies and ‘America First,’ platform.
“This campaign will be about faith, family, freedom and free enterprise,” Tapio said. “And about defending both the traditional values of this nation and the economic opportunities and rewards for hard work that made America the greatest nation on earth.”
“I’m not a career politician,” Tapio said. “But in the real world of business and corporate enterprise, I’ve been preparing for this moment my entire life, by experiencing at a very high level the way business really works and the way our government has increasingly blocked and hampered the ability for normal people to experience the American Dream. Through taxes and regulations and limitations, for too long, the system has been a rigged game that discourages the average person from striking out on their own and building a successful business and life.” Tapio said.
“Under President Donald Trump we’re seeing the beginnings of a reversal of those very troubling tendencies and already, the results are evident,” Tapio said.
“Unemployment is nearing record lows for population groups across the board and we’ve just experienced three consecutive quarters of Gross Domestic Product Growth (GDP) above 3%, after we were once told that America could never again experience that kind of economic prosperity,” Tapio said.
“I think the work has only just begun and I believe our economy is going to soar even higher, so long as we allow this President to continue on the course that he’s charted. I’m ready for the task of helping implement small government policies that empower people and put government in its place,” Tapio said.
Tapio is a successful entrepreneur and business owner whose enterprises service Fortune 50 companies in the world energy sector. Over 20 years of creating and running his own businesses, Tapio has negotiated multimillion dollar contracts in corporate boardrooms of some of the largest companies in the world. He became inspired to bring the practicality of his business experience to the political realm by the similar message and example of President Donald Trump: America first policies in economics, national defense and immigration that are a repudiation of globalist priorities and bureaucratic incompetence that for years left Americans disillusioned and hopeless about the political future of the nation and struggling under a deliberately sabotaged model of diminished American prosperity and a stagnant economy.
A refreshing stance for South Dakota !
Dusty doesn’t need to “furiously” establish himself. He has done that calmly and professionally and he has been out of public service and campaigns longer than Neal has. Dusty is working for a telecommunications company. Neal for a presidential campaign. Which is more political?
I am not a republican but if I were to vote for any of the candidates from the GOP it would be Dusty.
Curd and Mickelson should stand up to bigotry.
I only hear crickets.
Tapio is a nut case, his nomination would guarantee a Democratic victory.
as if knowing that would give anyone pause.
He is an embarassment and a bigot that reflects badly on an entire body of good and decent people.
Is he a bigot because he is not for open boarders.
Where are the “open borders? He hates freedom of religion….
Always suspicious of people that move into their parents house in their mid-40’s. Makes one wonder if all his business “success” left him unable to make a mortgage payment?
Ed, his dad, was having onslaught of dementia, not full blown, so Neal moved back home 7 years ago to help him. After getting things organized, including some remodeling, Neal found his own place to live. A pretty good son in my opinion. I see you really know what you are writing about.
What a good heart. You don’t see that much anymore.
Great news!!! His political career will now be over, so we don’t have to listen to his racist drivel any more.
This should give young Ms. Krebs pause, for Mr. Tapio will do well out-nutjobbing her. She’s pretending to be a wingnut, Tapio is one. Ms. Krebs is surely quaking tonight, but her sharp mind will cook up a next step that will make all sit upright and notice.
Tapio worked for a senator in Washington as far back as the 80s. He’s a political lifer.
At least he keeps up with politics instead of burying he head in the sand.
Fact check every word from Tapio. He speaks “Trump Truth” and that means he lies, chronically. He sells and rents parts washers but claims to be a big time business mogul. #PantsOnFire
What board rooms is he setting up multi million dollar deals? I’m not sure if he was wouldn’t he give an example?
I feel like this is similar to him saying law enforcement (unnamed) was behind his star academy push.
He is really short on specifics. And thus far he comes off as a bigot.
I feel like Krebs has become irrelevant as of late. Maybe I’m wrong but not much attention her way.
A first term SD Senator who has never won a competitive election, has virtually no discernable voting record, apparently claims some sort of adulation for the Trump victory in SD that was going to happen with no campaign director, wants the voters to anoint him as the second coming of Trump who will usher in the Golden Age from his lofty perch as the sole House member from South Dakota.
I’ll have to drop him a note of encouragement. Does anyone have the street address of the Tapio Tower?
Ken, your very first sentence was drivel, which was an indication of rest of your diatribe. Tapio won a very competitive election when he beat a 4-term St Representative in the Republican primary for state senate. YOUR hatefulness shows through. If you live in Watertown, leave your phone number here, I’ll call you, we can meet, I’ll take you to his house and you can hand deliver your message.
It’s either in Watertown or Rapid City.
Ken , never mind. 🤣
It is an open primary. Anyone who thinks they have something relevant to say and wants to serve is free to run.
As a former Statewide Political Director, I am sure he has a deep political and finance organization in place with at least $250K in the bank or firmly committed.
BTW, where and when are his events in Watertown, Sioux Falls, Rapid City, and Aberdeen. Details on his website?
Moscow
Make America Gag Again!
This racist makes me want to puke. Can this please be the end of this fellow’s political career?
Maybe you are the racist condoning human trafficking of slave labor. There are thousands of Americans that would be open to these jobs if they where bused in and provided housing, and a fair wage job.
Sounds like the same attacks levied at Trump during the ’16 primary. Makes me want to vote for the guy.
Sounds like you’ve already made up your mind. Your multiple posts in support of him give you away.
I have. Of the three running, he’s the only one to speak substantively on important issues. Dusty is playing up his “ah shucks” persona (an act), and Shantel…well, is she even campaigning?
Just hope all Tapio’s supporters aren’t so deceiving. Not honest to infer the “attacks” above make you “want to vote for the guy.”
Hard to tell though since Tara is the only one who puts her name on her endorsement while the other three of you pretend there are more by posting multiple times.
Anonymous 12:13, that aw shucks things isn’t an act. Do you know Dusty? He is actually that goofy/relatable/earnest.
Also, go to his Facebook page. You’ll find a bunch of videos about issues.
Nothing deceptive about posting anonymously, though I imagine some do use it for that purpose. My comments above are genuine. The disingenuine attacks on Tapio from the dems and from establishment GOP remind me of the way Trump was treated and strengthen my support for Tapio. As to how much support Tapio may or may not have amongst the electorate, I have no idea; I will vote for him, so that’s one.
I am voting for Tapio too. A vote for Dusty is a vote for the United Nations, not the United States.
“A vote for Dusty is a vote for the United Nations, not the United States.”– What are you talking about? Tell us on what issues you agree with an anti- Constitution bigot? Do you agree with the JBS on all issues?
I just put up a post that clearly shows the anti-Constitutional bigots are the Islamists and the leftists. The bottom up effort to destroy the Constitution was implemented by the Council of State Governments, of which Dusty was honored with a Toll Fellowship by our tax and spend governor. He also tried to implement their plan by establishing a City Manager in Mitchell, that is designed to undercut representative government. Contact me if you want details, or spend some time doing research.
Thanks for the questions.
We are speechless! Another beginning chapter of new Enquired right here!
2 here for Shantel positively!
http://www.nealtapio.com/meet-neal/
Tara, is there a point you were trying to make? Or are you just posting web addresses?
I thought it was a really good commercial. It’s going to be 2 very exciting races. I just wanted to post the “I am not a politician”. Sorry. My mistake.
Three questions/comments:
1) Where and when is his announcement in Sioux Falls today? It is not on his website which is either wholly odd or wholly incompetent.
2) While I think the residency questions regarding his serving as District 5 State Senator are legitimate, I do not think the comments about him moving into his parents house are. He is single, his dad was ill, and if that is what was best for his family, it is what people do for their family. These personal cheap shots are what disgust me about politics.
3) Who in the heck is this guy whose self-appointed mission is to “expose” people who are getting behind our President like it is a bad thing and calling it hypocrisy. Every day the President delivers good policy for our nation, it should engender more people getting behind him and we should celebrate it. The other thing I don’t like about politics is it attracts people who present themselves as the Messiah for America and our way of life. Sorry Charlie (or Neil), you aren’t a Prophet. Just one Messiah.
There is no place in the South Dakota Republican Party for rhetoric that attacks our fellow South Dakotans based on their race, gender, religion or humanity.