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.

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

Renzi Seeks Suppression of Tapped Calls

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Link: Renzi Says Justice Department Has Violated Attorney-client and Speech and Debate Privilege On Calls. In a not-unexpected move, Renzi’s lawyers are seeking suppression of evidence on the grounds that some of the communications the prosecution may seek to introduce was privileged communication with his lawyer, or specially protected communications with other Congress members regarding … Read more

Blue Tsunami

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by Michael Bryan The pundocracy is widely acknowledging that the 2008 election cycle is not likely to be kind to the GOP. In fact, most folks are expecting something of a perfect storm. I’m expecting a generational re-alignment. Not only will Obama win, he’ll win huge: Reagan vs. Mondale huge. Not only will Democrats defend … Read more