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.

Memorial Day and Politics

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"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"-Samuel Johnson "It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed."-Samuel Johnson Men who disdained military service themselves asked American soldiers to die for a mission that shifts like the sand, but … Read more

Politics, Profit, and Personal Loss

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by Jeff Latas My life has changed over that last ten months and the meaning of Memorial Day changed with it. There have been some comments on one of the later post here on BFA about politicizing Memorial Day, what is fair and what is objectionable when a political point of view references our troops, … Read more

Gov. Napolitano Veto Threatens Chaos for Local Elections, and No Oversight of $79 Billion in Public Funds

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Senate Bill 1053 provides for citizen oversight of non-partisan (lots of local and municipal elections) and issue elections (bonds and initiatives). That’s most of the elected officials in the State, 79 billion in public financing, and some of the most important legislative acts in our state, including amendments to our state constitution. Pretty important stuff. … Read more

Who’s Hanging with Ramon Valadez?

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Ramon Valadez is having a kick-off fund-raiser. Appropriately enough at the Rio Nuevo Business Plaza (developed by Diamond Ventures). In case that small type listing the hosts is hard to read, and maybe those names aren’t so familiar to Democrats in our community, here they are: Bill Estes III (R, SD 4) of The Estes … Read more

Victory For Election Integrity in Arizona! UPDATED

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Today, Judge Miller ruled that all databases from election past and future must be disclosed to the political parties. This is a victory for citizen oversight of our elections, complete vindication of the hard work and passionate advocacy of the Pima County Democratic Party and it’s attorney, Bill Risner, and a repudiation of the obsfucation, … Read more