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.

AZ Dems Call a Special Meeting to Consider the Retention of Chairman Branscomb Now Scheduled for July 16th

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The meeting to decide whether to retain or remove our current ADP Chairman Robert Branscomb is now scheduled, per petition, on July 16th, meeting virtually. Following some seemingly not-entirely-in-good-faith preliminary plans for a special meeting by the Chair that failed to provide a virtual meeting as the petition required, and didn’t provide timely notice of … Read more

Masking Tyranny

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I may be a progressive liberal, but I know history and human nature – and the nature of State power (from a career as a criminal prosecutor) – well enough to have some very conservative and libertarian impulses when it comes to limitations and conditions on the State’s police powers. This video from the Lincoln … Read more

AZ’s CD7 Special Election Race Forecast: Odds and Ends

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If you aren’t familiar with the candidates, I advise you to watch the debates and TheDGT.org’s Monday Shows with QA with each of them. There is only a little public polling available in Arizona’s very safe Democratic Congressional District 7, but there are some fairly easy assumptions to make regarding the state of the race … Read more

Make an Informed Choice and Meet ALL the AZ CD7 Special Election Primary Democratic Candidates with TheDGT.org

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TheDGT.org (for which I serve as 1st Vice Chair and Program Manager) now presents an ambitious series of Special Events, in which Democratic voters and members of Democrats of Greater Tucson interacted with all the CD7 Democratic candidates. Early voting has already begun. We hosted a rapid-fire series of our signature DGT Zoom events featuring … Read more

On Chair Branscomb and the Current Disunity of the ADP

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It’s time to break my written silence on this matter. First, I am an elected Precint Committeeman in LD20 and a State Committee Member of the ADP. I hold no other office in the Arizona Democratic Party, currently. I have had many conversations with all sides of this matter and look forward to having many … Read more