NFIB Endorses Rounds for U.S. Senate

Date: September 29, 2014

PIERRE, S.D., Sept. 29, 2014—At a news conference this morning in Pierre, America’s leading small-business association announced its endorsement of former Gov. Mike Rounds for the U.S. Senate, citing a record of support for Main Street enterprises that is miles ahead his opponents’.
“This is no time to send wild cards to the U.S. Senate,” said Lindsey Riter-Rapp, South Dakota state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, America’s largest and leading small-business association. “More than ever, Congress needs solid, dependable people. As governor, Mike Rounds held taxes to a minimum and strived to enact policies aimed at keeping our young from having to move out of state in order to find employment opportunities. As a former legislator, he was a winner of our Guardian of Small Business award. As a small-business owner and an NFIB member, he knows first-hand all the difficulties that go into keeping the doors of enterprise open and people employed. None of this has been lost on the people who are the engine of the South Dakota economy, which is why he received overwhelming support in a survey of our members.”
The endorsement of Rounds was made by NFIB’s SAFE (Save America’s Free Enterprise) Trust, the association’s political action committee. NFIB has almost 2,500 dues-paying members in South Dakota. “Small businesses significantly impact South Dakota’s economy,” reports the Office of Advocacy at the U.S. Small Business Administration. “They represent 96.5 percent of all employers and employ 61.9 percent of the private-sector labor force. Small businesses are crucial to the fiscal condition of the state and numbered 81,098 in 2010. Most of South Dakota’s small businesses have fewer than 20 employees.”
“We support the candidates who support small business,” said Lisa Goeas, NFIB’s vice president for political and grassroots. “The choice for small business could not be more resoundingly clear: Mike Rounds has his record and platform firmly planted on Main Street, South Dakota.”
Brief, single-pages of bulleted information on the power of the small-business vote, what a small business is and the distinctions it has from a big business can be found here.
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For more than 70 years, the National Federation of Independent Business has been the Voice of Small Business, taking the message from Main Street to the halls of Congress and all 50 state legislatures. NFIB annually surveys its members on state and federal issues vital to their survival as America’s economic engine and biggest creator of jobs. NFIB’s educational mission is to remind policymakers that small businesses are not smaller versions of bigger businesses; they have very different challenges and priorities.
National Federation of Independent Business/South Dakota
PO Box 280
Pierre, S.D. 57501
605-224-7102

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