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.

Guest Action by Steve Brittle: Hayden and the Superfund

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Hayden

Hayden, Arizona is a small company town with one industry – the ASARCO copper smelter. This is one of the nation’s top polluters. ASARCO has admitted in public reports its releases into Hayden’s air of thousands of tons of arsenic, lead, barium, copper, zinc, and sulfuric acid over the years. It is now proposed that Hayden be declared an EPA Superfund site, but the company, and elements of the town and county government, are determined to resist.

ASARCO has left a trail of environmental contamination with over $1 billion in environmental cleanup liability around the country. When faced with the costs of these cleanups, the company instead filed for bankruptcy.

Governor Napolitano has to concur with the decision to list Hayden as a
Superfund site and will decide by September 20th. But given the actions
of ADEQ, obviously intended to sell out the community, she needs to
hear from everyone that she should concur with the EPA’s proposal to
designate the area a Superfund site. The people of Hayden need
everyone’s help to prevent them from their continuing toxic nightmare.

Please contact Governor Janet Napolitano by mail, phone, and/or fax, and urge her to concur with the EPA’s proposal to list the town of Hayden as a Superfund site.

Janet Napolitano, Governor of Arizona
1700 West Washington
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
Telephone (602) 542-4331
Toll Free 1-(800) 253-0883
Fax (602) 542-1381

More about the story of ASARCO’s history in Hayden and the effort to clean up ASARCO’s mess after the click…

Jan Brewer’s Unseemly Glee

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The US District Court for Arizona handed down an order of partial summary judgement in the big Prop200 election rights case, Gonzales v. Arizona, and Secretary of State Jan Brewer reacted as if she had just parted the Red Sea. Her press release crowed: “I am extremely happy to have earned this sweeping court victory … Read more

Call for Volunteers to Help with Voter Registration

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Linda Brown from Azadvocacy.org needs volunteers! 30,000 voter registration forms bounced by the counties. Terry Goddard says they need to prove citizenship. Though there is no evidence that fraudulent voting has ever happened, the GOP has used this red herring to create an additional hurdle that people who wish to exercise their right to vote … Read more

Tonight’s Lunar Eclipse

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In the wee overnight hours tonight, the earth’s shadow will pass across the moon. Below is a chart that will help people in any the Mountain time zone know when to step outside (or set the alarm) and take in the spectacle.