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.

What COVID Deniers Call ‘Freedom’ is Just White Privilege

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You hear it all the time: the anti-vaxxer, and anti-masker, and outright COVID deniers proclaim that they refuse public health measures in the name of their ‘freedom’. They are not using that word in a way that I recognize as anything approaching our traditional American concept of freedom. Freedom to enjoy life, liberty and happiness; … Read more

Arizona election "auditors" use ultraviolet light to look at ballots

Court “Completely Rejects” State Senate’s Reason For Not Turning Over Audit-Related Records Held By Cyber Ninjas

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A judge today “completely reject(ed)” State Senate President Karen Fann’s reason for not turning over records related to her election audit. It does not matter whether the records are in the hands of the Cyber Ninjas or subcontractors, Judge Michael Kemp ruled. “The Court finds that any and all documents with a substantial nexus to … Read more

Ninja Doug Logan

STRANGER AND STRANGER: Cyber Ninjas Tries To Disqualify Judge, Calling Him “Bias(ed)”, and Previous Ruling “Plainly Bizarre”

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Cyber Ninjas are trying to turn the tables and disqualify the judge in one of the public records lawsuits against them and the Arizona State Senate. The Ninjas accuse Superior Court Judge John Hannah of showing “actual bias and prejudice” against the Arizona GOP and “conservative causes”. Hannah is the assigned judge in the Arizona … Read more

Doug Ducey discusses his approach to critical race theory

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Doing his best to channel George Wallace, Governor Doug Ducey is banning Critical Race Theory in schools. Citing Arizona’s leadership in education, while also declaring that he is “protecting Arizonans against divisive and regressive lessons”. Let’s not forget that in 1987, Arizona’s own Governor Evan Mecham rescinded the MLK holiday and decided to offer up a “Civil Rights Day” instead, to be “celebrated” on a Sunday. This cost the state a Super Bowl and around $200 million in revenue. This resulted in our state being the last in the nation to formally accept the MLK holiday. If you just found out about this bit of trivia by reading this blog, then you also just found out WHY teaching Critical Race Theory is important.