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.

AZ’s DNC Delegation Breakfast Day 3 Was a Political Nerd’s Fantasy Team!

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First up was political super-star former Presidential candidate and NJ’s Senator Cory Booker, who I suspect pissed every other speaker off because they had to follow this! With humor, wit, heartfelt storytelling. and some good old-fashioned shouting, Booker rocked the room. Note that this was him “saving his voice” for tonight’s appearance on the DNC … Read more

Mesa Mayor John Giles Stands Up to the AZGOP’s MAGA Bullies for Democracy and the American Way

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Mayor Giles has been here before. He stepped forward to endorse the election of Democrat Mark Kelly to the Senate over anti-democratic, anti-American values MAGA blowhard, conspiracy theorist, election denier, and insurrectionist fascist before and taken the blowback from his own party it has caused him with grace. He’s now doing it again on the … Read more

Inside the Room at the Arizona DNC Delegation Breakfast

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This morning we got treated to rousing speeches from Arizona luminaries. Sorry in advance that I didn’t cath all of our lead-off speaker SecState Fontes and didn’t get my tripod setup immediately – I’ll do better in future events! AZSecState Adrian Fontes led off. His main message was to turn your early ballots in within … Read more

UPDATED 9/29: ADLCC is Our Cheat Code to Deliver Total Victory in Arizona. But Time is Running Out! Donate Today!

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What is the Arizona Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (ADLCC)? It is the coordinated campaign in the key state legislative districts that can flip control of the Arizona Legislature to Democrats for the first time in decades. It is how we Democrats can start to deliver for Arizona citizens, instead of just vetoing the worst nonsense … Read more

Four Ways to Recruit Young People into Politics

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Please see below for Sarah’s video presentation about recruiting young people into politics, which she presented at a recent meeting of the Pima County Democratic Party. I’m a Master of Public Education student at the University of Arizona, and it’s my last year, so I’m set to graduate in May. I’ve been involved in politics … Read more