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.

Open Letter to President Garimella and University of Arizona Board

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Dear President Garimella, On January 21, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded its policy restricting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in sensitive areas such as schools, healthcare facilities, and places of worship. This reversal of policy allows DHS, ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to freely conduct operations in these … Read more

Please Follow BlogForArizona on Bluesky!

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Since X and Threads have become corporate cesspits of propaganda, harassment, and fascism, we have decided to move our news commentary to Bluesky. You will note that we new have social media icon links in the upper right corner of the site to Mastodon (where we autopost new articles) and to Bluesky. We abandoned X/Twitter … Read more

Blog Jester Johnny Drops a GOOD Bill?!

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Our local blog jester, AZ State Senator John Kavanaugh, is usually infamous around here for being a notorious troll and for advocating for REALLY bad legislation. But this session he has done at least one thing right: he dropped a bill to allow Arizona School Board candidates to use the E-Qual system to gather petition … Read more

Gallego and Kelly Will Regret Supporting the ‘Detain Petty Thieves Forever Bill’ (aka ‘Laken Reilly’)

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It seems that many elected Democrats, including some of Arizona’s own, have been cowed into supporting a very bad bill. In brief, the ‘Detain Petty Thieves Forever Bill’ (aka the Laken Reilly Act… you can always count on MAGA to horribly and cynically exploit a family’s tragedy for political purposes, can’t you?) not only mandates … Read more