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.

How Citizens United Increases Foreign Influence Over American Politics

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By Michael Bryan A frequently unrecognized effect of the Citizens United decision is that it will inevitably lay open our political system to unfettered foreign influence. By giving corporations constitutional rights within our political system, the Supreme Court has ensured that foreign governments and corporations have a constitutionally-based means to infiltrate and corrupt our political … Read more

An Immoral Budget

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By Michael Bryan There are bad budgets. There are harmful budgets. There are short-sighted budgets. There are unbalanced budgets. This year's Arizona state budget is all those things, and more. Arizona's proposed 2011 budget is actually immoral. State governments have a few core responsibilities: elementary and higher education, healthcare, and protecting the least affluent and … Read more

Face This!

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By Michael Bryan Well, that was hardly as trivial an undertaking as I expected, but I think we finally got the BfAZ FB Page working. Try it out on the sidebar to the left and at the address www.facebook.com/BlogForArizona. Thanks for all your feedback and suggestions while we got this thing up and humming. After this … Read more

Eckerstrom on Starting Our State: Baja Arizona

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By Michael Bryan Exclusive to BlogForArizona, here's Paul Eckerstrom, former Chair of the Pima and (briefly) Arizona Democratic Parties, advocating for the 51st State: Baja Arizona. Paul spoke to fellow Bajaians at Drinking Liberally in Tucson. Learn more about the movement or join up at the Website or Facebook Page.