1. Neal Tapio graduated from Watertown High School in Watertown, South Dakota in 1988.
16 Facts About Neal Tapio
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Neal Tapio attended Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minnesota where he graduated in 1992 with a Bachelors in Business Administration.
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Neal Tapio worked in the finance industry for Wells Fargo in Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Neal Tapio later founded New Horizon Homes in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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Neal Tapio worked as a director of Growth Energy, an ethanol trade association.
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Neal Tapio is the current CEO of NT Sales and Leasing in Watertown, South Dakota.
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Neal Tapio's business has been heavily involved in the oil industry in the Bakken formation.
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In 2002, Neal Tapio was the campaign director for Larry Diedrich's congressional bid in the 2002 US House of Representatives election.
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Neal Tapio was an early supporter of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2015.
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Neal Tapio served as Donald Trump's South Dakota campaign director for the 2016 US presidential race.
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Neal Tapio was sworn into the South Dakota Senate on January 10,2017.
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Neal Tapio successfully managed the South Dakota Trump campaign in the South Dakota primary and general elections.
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Neal Tapio ultimately organized five rallies with Trump and two rallies with then-vice presidential nominee Mike Pence.
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On January 28,2018, Neal Tapio announced his bid to become the Republican nominee for US Representative for.
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Neal Tapio faced former PUC commissioner Dusty Johnson and secretary of state Shantel Krebs in the June 5,2018 GOP primary.
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Neal Tapio has stated he would declare a "state of emergency" over the Indian Reservations within South Dakota and would shift funding towards them in order to help alleviate various issues.