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.

The Early Money Race

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"I have a great idea! Let’s not have any more elections. That way, we don’t have to worry about voting machines, counting the votes correctly. Instead, let’s set a closing date for raising money and the candidate with the most money is simply declared the winner. The money – the tons of money raised to … Read more

Shop at BlogForArizona

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Now you can buy absolutely essential consumer goods at the BlogForArizona.com Shop. You can demonstrate your brand loyalty, promote readership of your favorite blog (assuming that you favorite happens to be this one), and tell the vast right-wing conspiracy to kiss your ass. <– This ass to be specific. From now on this ad will … Read more

National Presidential Caucus

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Link: National Presidential Caucus. This is a great idea. Let’s have a say (even if a non-delegate determinative one) before Iowa kicks off. On December 7th, caucuses for both parties all around the nation will determine whom they think should be our nominees. No waiting for Iowa to tell us who the front-runners are. I … Read more

Why Does Giffords Hate the Estate Tax?

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WTF? Why was Gabby Giffords alone in the Arizona Democratic delegation in voting with President Bush and the GOP crazies to permanently and completely repeal the dynasty tax? ESTATE TAX REPEAL:  On Wednesday the House, voting 196 for and 212 against, defeated a Republican motion to HR 3056 (above) that sought to permanently repeal the … Read more

BeeTraying Arizona’s Constitution

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Does anyone honestly believe that Tim Bee needs $134K and growing to explore the idea of a running for Congress? Bee’s spin doctors are trying to sell the idea that his ‘exploration’ involves seeing if he can raise enough to be competitive with Gabby before he announces. That’s not the purpose of an exploratory committee, … Read more