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.

PSA: Just Don’t Text and Drive This Holiday Season… or Ever.

December 27, 2010 by Michael Bryan

Posted by Michael Bryan This holiday season it is a given that many people will lose their lives to preventable vehicular accidents. Don't become one of the statistics. You are 27 times more likely to be involved in an accident if you text and drive: it negatively affects your driving as much as being over … Read more

Senator Kyl, Do Your Duty: Our Military Works Through the Holidays – So Should Our Senate

December 20, 2010 by Michael Bryan

By Brett Hunt, posted upon request of the Truman National Security Project Senator Kyl continues to delay the New START arms pact with Russia, even though it has the unanimous backing of the uniformed military leadership, every living Secretary of State, and even former President George H.W. Bush. Because of this delay, the treaty has … Read more

Brewing Up Lies About the State Budget

December 19, 2010 by Michael Bryan

Posted by Michael Bryan Brewer caused an op-ed to be published regarding the ongoing implosion of the state budget, blaming it all on "Obamacare". It's the most mendacious bit of propaganda I've seen from the Governor's office recently, which is saying a lot. I've republished it below interspersed with my own commentary in blue italics. … Read more

Get the Scoop without the Poop – Sign Up for AZDonkeyFeed Today!

December 17, 2010 by Michael Bryan

Posted by Publisher Michael Bryan There's a feature of BlogForArizona that many of you may not even be aware of that could save you literally hours every day, if you like to follow Arizona news and politics. The AZDonkeyFeed is an RSS stream of the latest and most pertinent news stories from the Arizona media … Read more

Pearce: Opens his Mouth, Racism Falls Out

December 10, 2010 by Michael Bryan

You can't make this up. Pearce hanging with his anti-immigrant hommies in DC, lets his hair down and tells an "amusing" zinger about our President. Arizona's shadow-Führer is disgusting.