Tim Bjorkman (Entry) in the Sioux Falls Parade. In a BMW.

Pat Powers

Had a reader send me this from yesterday’s Sioux Falls Parade supposedly with Dem Congressional Candidate Tim Bjorkman riding and waving from a BMW convertible:

As “Beemer Bjorkman” was riding along waving,  Dusty Johnson was pounding the pavement out in Belle Fourche:

Update: one of Bjorkman’s family members says in the comment section that it was a volunteer who slapped magnets on a BMW, and not his father, who was at another parade at the time.

I wasn’t there, so I’ll take his word for it. Still.. volunteer or no, I’m not sure what kind of image that projects. And image is everything in politics.

25 thoughts on “Tim Bjorkman (Entry) in the Sioux Falls Parade. In a BMW.”

  1. BMW is owned by one of our closest NATO allies being Germany. BMW has a very large manufacturing plant in Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina which is a beautiful large facility providing highly sought after American jobs. BMW also has a generous employee compensation package. Good for Tim Bjorkman!

  3. I don’t know if pointing out the kind of car he is in as useful. I would say that pointing out the he is a Democrat former judge who would side with the national Democrat party is more useful. He would be there to kiss up to Nancy (if she would become speaker, heaven forbid) and vote party lines. That is the more scary thing.

    1. ” He would be there to kiss up to Nancy (if she would become speaker, heaven forbid) and vote party lines. That is the more scary thing.”

      Tim Bjorkman is already at odds with the DNC and is very independent in that regard. If you follow what his priorities are and visit with him you will most likely realize he is more focused on serving South Dakotans and the nation than a political party or special interests since he is not accepting any PAC money, financial support from the DNC or SDDP. He has Republicans, Independents and Dems as supporters and on his staff.

      2. I don’t buy it. He would toe the party line on big issues like Herseth did. Look at all the party line things happening in DC right now. Not one Democrat was given permission to vote for the tax bill. We got rid of Daschle, Johnson, and Herseth, and we don’t need to have a Democrat in DC now.

      3. “Tim Bjorkman is already at odds with the DNC and is very independent in that regard.”

        If that is the case, and if Sutton is beginning to be despised by the pro-abortionists, why don’t they run on the R ticket?

      5. Does no special interest include the Sierra Club? Because he’s doing a lot with them, and they’re certainly a special interest group.

  4. He can drive any car he wants, but he won’t be able to outwork Dusty. This will be a 65-35 race.

  5. I hope you realize the BMW of the Midwest is called a pickup. Most pickups you see driving around by politicians and Republicans are worth more than that car. Some are probably twice the cost, but keep up with that class warfare as if you are pointing out some great point.

  7. r. Powers, I’d like to set the record straight about your post
    concerning my dad. He wasn’t in the Sioux Falls parade, something that
    would have been clear to anyone who tried to verify truth. My dad never
    rides in any parade. He is a fit guy and actually walked and, at times,
    ran through both the Kranzburg and Watertown parades, taking time to
    shake many hundreds of hands along the routes. He arrived in Kranzburg
    just after 9:00 am for that parade, and was at the Watertown parade
    until after 4:00 pm. The man in the picture that seems to have been
    passed on and published by you without effort to verify is a volunteer
    who drove his own car in the Sioux Falls parade, which began at 10:00
    am.

  8. Tim Borkman : the most comprehensively Pro-death candidate in South Dakota ever.

    3. Troy,

      What does that mean? Tim is pro-life. He has been a staunch pro-life Catholic for as long as I’ve known him. He is very devoted to his faith. I remember him attending daily mass in Kimball. He is a stand-up guy and I don’t like these personal attacks on him nor these snides about riding in a BMW.

  9. I am sitting in a BMW listening to Rush Limbaugh and reading this post. Killing time waiting for husband to finish talking to a fellow car collector.

    Is this a problem?

  10. I don’t care what type of car a candidate rides in in a parade. I only care about their political philosophy, and that is tied to which political platform they support. And that is a clear indicator of how they will vote on issues, regardless of what they say on the campaign trail. If a candidate goes to all the trouble to get elected, he is not going to jeapordize his political future by bucking the party line when voting.

    1. You only care about their political philosophy? So, what you really mean is that you only care if the candidate is a republican.

      1. It so happens that the Republican philosophy agrees with mine. I would assume that you have another philosophy that is more in line with another party and that is why you vote that way. That is how it is supposed to work, isn’t it?

  11. Are we now trying to appeal to SD voters by showing them that we have the crappiest cars or that our cars are so bad we are just walking in the parade? I don’t think that is a winning formula. Just sayin.

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