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.

Presidential Platforms’ Impact on State Policies

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I normally don’t post source material wholesale like this, but this piece from Progressive States was so informative, I just couldn’t see condensing it. So here are the positions of many of the Presidentials on both sides of the aisle on the bread and butter issues that define the economic policy in the states.

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Given
the experience of Senate filibusters against innovative policies
proposed at the federal level, here at Progressive States we are inevitably cautious in our hopes based on Presidential candidate proposals.

But
state policymakers can in many cases adapt the best of the candidate
proposals for state laws– and in many cases already have done so,
since as this Dispatch will outline, many of the best ideas
proposed by the candidates are already part of the debate in the
states. This issue will focus on three areas — energy policy, health
care, and aid for working families — where states can adapt candidate
proposals.

Much, much more on the flip…

Feingold Speaks Against Flawed FISA Revision

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UPDATE: VICTORY! Reid pulled the version with immunity. It will likely creep back on the calendar in January, but for now the beast is slain. If you aren’t sure what the fuss is about regarding granting immunity to telecoms for the assistance in the Administration’s past violations of FISA, then this is the video to … Read more

ProtectAZBorder.com Launches: Helping Us Keep an Eye on the Right

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State Rep. John Kavanagh (R – LD8) launched his anti-immigration website to support the employer sanctions law: ProtectAZBorder.com. One of the first things you will read on his site is the following: "Arizona businesses are firing Hispanic immigrants, moving operations to Mexico and freezing expansion plans ahead of a new law that cracks down on … Read more

Impeachment in Tucson

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As many of you will have read in Daniel Scarpinato’s piece on impeaching Cheney , Raul Grijalva has signed on a co-sponsor of resolution 799 (was 333). That means that we here in Southern Arizona have finished half of our responsibility to get our Representatives on board. Grijalva deserves our thanks and our support for truly … Read more

Want Impeachment? Ditch Nancy.

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Link: To Replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House of Representatives for the Purposes of Pursuing Impeachment Petition. Seems everyone in Congress is blaming Nancy Pelosi for their inaction on impeachment. Fine. Then let’s get rid of Nancy and elect a Speaker who isn’t afraid to do the will of the people and to … Read more