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.

Bush Should Just Put Taxpayer Money in Bee’s Warchest

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There has been much clamor over Bush’s visit to Tucson to host a fund-raiser for Senator Bee’s Congressional bid. Most commentary on the blogs has focused on Bee’s political tone-deafness in associating so closely with a deeply divisive and unpopular President, with Bush’s secretiveness during the visit, and about how the disruption and inconvenience caused … Read more

Obama’s Listening to America Program

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by Pat Canady As part of their Listening to America Program, the Obama campaign named Governor Janet Napolitano to head the campaign’s Platform Drafting Committee. The Governor will plan more than 1,000 community meetings across the nation. These Platform Committee house parties are part of the process in crafting a platform for Barack Obama. The … Read more

LD 26 Debate Makes a Believer of Me

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I was at the LD 26 Republican primary Clean Elections debate and have a few observations to share. Jim Nintzel did a not-so "live blog" of the show-down between the Senate contenders, but I don’t seem to find anything about the House debate at his Scramblewatch site. Thus, I will be focusing more on the … Read more

Just Call Me Number 45

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PolitickerAZ has released their analysis of the most influential unelected folks in Arizona politics (as well as those in other states they cover). It’s called the Arizona Power List, and a few Arizona bloggers made the cut. Greg Patterson of Esspresso Pundit is listed at #37. Shane Wikfors and John Ellinwood of Sonoran Alliance are … Read more

Supervisorial Smack Talk

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There has been a report here already about the Nucleus Club meeting featuring the Democratic primary candidates for Supervisorial Districts 2 and 3, and I know the Weekly will be doing a quasi-live blog of the event, so I am not going to rehash everything. I am grateful and glad to see the Weekly doing … Read more