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 Election Integrity Trial: Testimony of Dr. Tom Ryan

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Please see the Election Integrity Homepage for complete coverage and the latest news. There are generally just a few real take-away nuggets of information from an witness’ testimony that can be summed up fairly succinctly. In the case of Dr. Ryan, I think the most important nuggets of information are these: Dr. Ryan can conceive … Read more

Pima County Election Integrity Trial: County’s Opening Statement

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Please see the Election Integrity Homepage for complete coverage and the latest news. Summary of the opening statement by the Pima County Deputy Attorney Christopher Straub: The database files requested by the Democratic Party contain procedural programming as it is defined in Arizona legislation and the rules that originate with the Secretary of State. Both … Read more

Pima County Election Integrity Trial: Dem Party’s Opening Statement

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Please see the Election Integrity Homepage for complete coverage and the latest news. Media Access: The judge ruled to allow a video camera in the room during opening statements, but has reserved judgment as to whether camera and blogging will be allowed in the room during witness testimony. He expressed some concern about the possibility … Read more

Pima County Election Integrity Blues on Trial

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Please see the Election Integrity Homepage for complete coverage and the latest news. Starting today, BlogForArizona will be given over to live blog coverage of the lawsuit by the Pima County Democratic Party against Pima County, Arizona, seeking to force the county to respond to a public records request for the databases containing the actual … Read more

Border Patrol Police State

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I got this story from June Wortman’s newsletter. She calls the incident harrowing, and I can’t disagree. The rapidity with which police forces escalate encounters with citizens who don’t behave exactly as they would wish, or worse, actually insist on being treated with respect and accorded their civil rights, is increasingly reminiscent of how an … Read more