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.

Birthers: Your Cordial Invitation to STFU

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Posted By Michael Bryan Now, if we hearing anything more about this, we will know two things for certain: 1) You have nothing of actual substance to offer the American people. 2) Your obsession denotes your ill-concealed racism, which you have no other means to express in public.

Daily Show filming at Tucson’s Shanty on 4th Ave

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Posted by Michael Bryan Want to see a Daily Show taping in Tucson? Thursday at 5pm at the Shanty on 4th Ave. Daily Show correspondents will be filming an upcoming episode on the movement to separate Southern Arizona from wing-nut dominated Maricopa AZ. Hoist a few for our new state! Maybe get your mug on … Read more

Marshall Home™, Billionaire Democratic Mayoral Candidate, is None of the Preceding Things

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By Arizona Roadrunner Tonight I witnessed an interesting meeting at Drinking Liberally with Tucson Democratic (sic) Mayoral candidate Marshall Home™. That's not a typo: Marshall has trademarked his name. And that is the tip of the weird iceberg that is the Marshall Home™ worldview. If I told you that someone admired Michael Savage and Neal Bortz as really smart … Read more

Republican Ratings From Pachyderm Coalition

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By Michael Bryan The Pachyderm Coalition has released their rankings of Republican Arizona state legislators. Use this to find the more moderate (if such a thing even exists any more) Republicans in the caucus. It will likely work as a predictor for who is going to be getting a primary challenge from a yet more … Read more

Arizona Senator Pearce Attacks the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

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By Michael Bryan Senator Pearce caused to be published (I suspect his press secretary actually wrote it… it smells of his hand) an op-ed attacking the 9th circuit in general and launching an ad hominem attack on two of the judges. Notably, Pearce did not address any issues of substance, instead merely ranting about some … Read more