Michael Bryan

Michael founded BlogForArizona.net as the Howard Dean presidential campaign blog for Arizona in 2003, and has been blogging ever since. The Blog is now coming up on 20 years of continuous publication, a major achievement for any political blog, which usually have the life-spans of mayflies. Michael is an attorney living in Tucson with his wife Lauren. In 2008, Michael remade BlogForArizona into a collaborative project. Michael is now but one of the contributors to the blog and provides editorial and publishing direction in consultation with the Board of Directors and the other authors. If you want to keep up with the latest Arizona and National political news in an entertaining quick hit of news and opinion, check out the BlogForArizona twitter feed, which Mike largely curates and writes. Michael is also an AAPC member who occassionally consults on political campaigns, strategy and communications.

CD7 Congressional Special Election: Grijalva Prevails

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In a surprise to just about no one, the five way scrum for the CD7 Special to replace Rep. Grijalva, results in… Rep. Grijalva. I predicted the result (of which I am not espcially proud, since it was not all that hard to forsee) with some questions about specific outcomes below the bottom line of … Read more

Failed ADP Chairman Branscomb Steers AZ Party into Unfair Labor Practices Charges

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ADP HQ Staff Union Members announced today that the Union Orgaining unit will be filing charges of unfair labor practices against the Arizona Democratic Party. This is national-scale disaster for the Democratic Party for which Chairman Branscomb is 100% responsible. From the press release: After stalled bargaining sessions and numerous actions that show evidence ofunion … Read more

UPDATED 7/15: The Case Against Arizona Democratic Party Chairman Robert Branscomb: A Letter to State Committee Members

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Mr. Branscomb cannot effectively lead the ADP forward, under any circumstances. UPDATE: Branscomb has drawn Unfair Labor Practices charges. I resolved several weeks ago to write something to try to assist our AZ State Committee Members (SCMs) to understand what has transpired over the past several months under the Chairmanship of Robert Branscomb, and how … Read more

Ten Steps to Destroy America

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I was contemplating a post on how, were I a supervillian intent on destroying America, my agenda would look almost exactly like Trump’s. But then California Senator Adam Schiff beat me to it. So, instead of reading a lengthy think piece by me, you can just watch Schiff brilliantly lay out the ten ways Trump … Read more