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.

Arizona a Key Expansion State for Obama Campaign

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Posted by Michael Bryan The Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina outlines several possible re-election scenarios for Obama in 2012. One of the most interesting for us is for Obama to win Arizona. With no favorite son in the race this time, Messina says that polling indicates that Arizona is winnable (Obama is beating the GOP field, … Read more

Mike’s 2011 Top Ten

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Posted by Michael Bryan I thought I would get in the spirit of reflecting back on the past year by taking a look at my posts over the course of 2011 with an eye to picking out a few of the 'best'. What I found is that I hadn't done all that much 🙂 It … Read more

Hold Clarence Thomas Accountable for Ethic Violations

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Post by Michael Bryan For over two decades Clarence Thomas has been failing to disclose his wife's income from sources which could reasonably be viewed as presenting a conflict of interest on many cases on which he presided. People for the American Way are supporting the efforts of some members of Congress to hold him … Read more

You Say You Want a Revolution?

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Posted By Michael Bryan A lot of our time here at BforAZ is spent railing against incredibly stupid policies adopted by Congress and the crazy extremes to which our political parties (especially the GOP, in my view) have polarized our political dialog. Many important issues (health care, the federal budget, unemployment relief, climate change, the … Read more