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.

Pima County’s Election Integrity Moment of Truth

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Will they? Or won’t they? It seems like a happy victory-day dance is in the works for the many committed citizen activists who have worked for years here in Pima County to improve election security and assure proper public oversight of our entire elections process by the political parties. The Board has voted unanimously to … Read more

Maybe Grover Norquist Was Right About Bi-Partisanship?

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As expectations here in Arizona of Governor Napolitano’s endorsement of Obama for President are firming up to the point that Arizona’s volunteer Obama staff are saying it’s in the bag, I just feel compelled to share this little morsel from Ted Rall: I especially love the Hello Kitty Obama sign. Precious.

Mike’s iPod

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I recently bought an iPod Nano with video. Wow. Without a doubt, the best $200 I ever spent. I can’t believe I lived without this thing until now. I have discovered time in the little interstices of life to listen to discussions and news and music and watch video I would never have been exposed … Read more

Yesterdays Has-Beens Are Back

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With 91% of precincts reporting, it is safe to say that New Hampshire has been won by Clinton (~39%) and McCain (~37%). Yesterday they were in trouble or even footnotes of the 2008 race, today they are back in the driver’s seats. But with New Hampshire voters on both sides of the aisle dipping into … Read more