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.

Jesse Kelly Is Not a Hypocrite On Stimulus, He’s Just Plain Wrong

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By Michael Bryan The Arizona Republic recently ran an excellent investigative peice highlighting the disconnect between Jesse Kelly's criticism of Obama's stimulus package and the more than $60 million in projects his family business worked on. The Arizona Republic has found that since 2010, additional stimulus and government-funded projects, totaling at least $60.8 million, have gone to … Read more

Romney Leading in AZ: Just Don’t Run With an Arizonan on the Ticket

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by Michael Bryan The latest polling from Public Policy Polling (PDF link) indicates that Romney is leading in Arizona by 7 points (50%-43%), which is within the margin of error (+/-4.4%), but likely represents a small true advantage. I don't find that terribly surprising, given the GOP registration advantage and the strong Mormon population and activation in … Read more

Our Faulty Fascination with Partial Solutions

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By Karl Reiner The bill introduced in the Arizona legislature to establish a 62 mile deep warning zone along the Arizona- Mexico border was eventually withdrawn by its sponsor.  The objective of the bill was to alert residents and visitors to the dangers posed by illegal immigrants and drug traffickers in the zone, an area … Read more

Drinking Liberally LD9 House Democrats Debate, Wednesday, May 30th at 6pm

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By Michael Bryan This Wednesday night, 5/30, Drinking Liberally will host a debate between the three Democratic candidates for the Arizona House of Representatives for LD9: Dustin Cox, Mohur Sidhwa, and Victoria Steele. Drinking Liberally starts at 6pm (at The Shanty on 4th Avenue); the debate will start promptly at 6:30. The debate will be moderated by me. … Read more