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.

Obama Courts the Web Geek Vote

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By Michael Bryan I was recently looking at the President's campaign website, BarackObama.com. There was something in the design that I liked, so I took a peek at the page's HTML. I was surprised to find this in the code: Seems Obama is gunning for every vote; even web geeks looking at his site's code.

Carmona on Maddow Demonstrates a Key Reason to Nominate Him

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Posted by Michael Bryan

Richard Carmona went on the Maddow Show to stand up for women's reproductive health privacy rights. BlueMeanie also posted on this appearance.

Carmona's iron-clad credibility on health issues and his national stature allows him excellent access to media to counter the GOP's War on Women in Arizona. It's a powerful argument for his nomination given the record of the GOP's likely nominee, Jeff Flake, on these issues.

See the video below the fold…

ObamaCares, not Obamacare

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By Michael Bryan The Republicans are masters of neuro-linguistic programming, mostly because they are much more disciplined in their communication strategy. That stupid "Democrat" versus "Democratic" thing really annoys me, and it works: I see that 'mistake' being made in the press all the time now. So, the GOP's messaging strategy has been to label … Read more

Frank, That’s Not Even Close!

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By Michael Bryan

I don't know that this is actually Frank Antenori's truck in this video. I know he drives a truck frequently, but I'm relying on the research of the Tucson Weekly that this is actually Frank.

And if it is, Holy Crap, Frank! This violation is not someone trying to make a changing light, this is someone seeing an open intersection and just blatantly claiming it as his own. Frank appears to just roll up to the red light, take a quick look around, and decide to just blow off the traffic light as others sit patiently (and safely) at the intersection.

Seems that Frank's War on Redlight Cameras was not inspired by close calls, but by his personal impatience with having to actually follow the rules of the road.

See the video after the click…