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.

Get Arizona Donkey Feed to Keep Up With Arizona’s Political News

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Posted by Michael Bryan

Did you know that BlogForArizona offers a customized newsletter of (nearly) every day's top political news from Arizona's meanstream media and blogs (both liberal and conservative)? It's a great way to keep abreast of Arizona's political news, opinion and events. (BTW, you can get a great run down of upcoming political events anytime you want by clicking the BfAZ Political Calendar link at the top of the page)

Did you know that the service is totally, 100% free?

It's the Arizona Donkey Feed!

Did you know that you can get this useful feed in many convenient formats?

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You can just look at the top of the right sidebar under 'Mike's AZ Politics News Clips', where the 20 most recent items are displayed.

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Or, you can click on the Donkey Feed graphic, or on the AZDonkeyFeed link at the top of the page, to go to the webpage where all the items are displayed (with either a full text of the item, or a synopsis, whichever the publisher chooses to publish in their RSS feed).

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Or you can click on the Subscribe To Feed graphic, which will take you to a Feedburner page on which you can subscribe to the custom RSS feed in your preferred RSS reader, or elect to receive a daily email of that day's links.

The email option is great. If you want a pre-view of a what a day's newsletter looks like, just click the continuation link to see an example of today's email.

Sign up today! It's free!

Our Brilliant (Bought-and-Paid-For and Secret-Keeping) State Legislature

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Posted by Michael Bryan As if totally deaf to the historically low regard in which Americans hold their Congress, and the Arizona State Legislature, two Arizona legislators have decided that there is not enough special interest money in our politics, and too much transparency of legislator's communications. [hat tip to Alia Rau at Political Insider.] Representatives … Read more

Changes to BfAZ Format

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Posted by Michael Bryan I've often got feedback about this blog that it can be hard to keep up with the volume of posting. Things can often just fly off the front page and never been seen between visits. Also, sometimes the front page can load very slowly due to all the media trying to … Read more

Did Jan Brewer Threaten Impeachment of Arizona Supreme Court Justices?

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Posted by Michael Bryan I just got around to watching Michael Chihak's interview with Jan Brewer regarding her new budget proposal on Arizona Week. At one point, Chihak asked her about the Independent Redistricting Commission controversy, and she became very animated and claimed that she was "outraged" by the Supreme Court's refusal to allow her to arbitrarily … Read more

None Dare Call It Bribery

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* If this corrupt, selfish, and destructive behavior is not already illegal, what do we have to do to make it illegal?
* If/when it is illegal, how to we remove the barriers to enforcement, so as to make sure the laws are enforced in practice?