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.

Mule Train Mail Is Taking Your Letters

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I’m initiating a new feature here on Blog For Arizona. It’s called ‘Mule Train Mail’ and it is your letters and opinions. Too frequently, citizen’s opinions, views and experiences don’t get the space they deserve in our daily newspapers. Excellent letters to the editor or guest op-eds don’t ever get published due to space constraints. … Read more

Rating Service for Election Processes

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Link: Rating Service for Election Processes. This is one of the most sensible and useful—and ambitious—ideas I’ve seen come out of the Election Integrity community to date. John Denker is undoubtedly a goddamn genius. Read this, and then slap your forehead and yell, "Of course!" This is not a little local idea, however. This is … Read more

Pima County Becoming Mildly Deranged Over Election Integrity

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The recent supplementary hearing on release of the GEMS election databases here in Pima County showed just how little substance there is to the County’s objections to further public disclosure. They have been unable to substantiate their overheated claims that release of these public records would harm election security. They even admit that the Pima … Read more

We’re Number 1… really!

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I don’t know how the rankings are actually generated, but some folks set some stock in BlogNetNews.com’s influence ranking of local blogs. Recently, BlogForArizona.com was honored with the #1 Most Influential Blog in Arizona ranking. Generally, they have ranked Arizona’s Republican blogs as more influential than Arizona’s Democratic blogs, so I think it’s worth mentioning. … Read more

KOLD 13 Does Election Integrity Right

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KOLD 13’s Bud Foster covered yesterday’s hearing in the on-going election integrity legal battle between Pima County and the Pima County Democratic Party. He does an awesome job of setting the tone (code red!) and conveying the real import of the complex issues involved (there is no adult supervision of our elections!). I haven’t seen … Read more