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.

Why is Bush Twice as Popular as Congress?

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Why is the Democratic Congress so terribly unpopular with voters? Congressional approval ratings are at a historical low of 18%. I don’t believe that it is because the Democratic Congress is working to improve wages, protecting workers’ right to unionize, improving children’s access to health care, fostering alternative energy and energy independence, enacting the 9/11 … Read more

Biden’s Cathedral

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This is the strongest ad running in Iowa today in my estimation. I don’t think that it is enough to overcome Biden’s mis-steps and launch him into the first tier, but it is the sort of resonant, serious, and moving messaging on Iraq that Democrats should be doing. Hopefully, it may help focus Democrats on … Read more

Bush Sinks the SCHIP

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President Bush has chosen political ideology and the corporate health insurance industry over the health and well-being of America’s most needy and vulnerable people, our children. In a stealthy and cowardly move to avoid the news cycle, at 7:30 PM last Friday the Bush Administration sent states new restrictions for the State Children’s Health Insurance … Read more

DNC Does the Right Thing

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Link: The DNC voted unimously to strip Florida of it’s delegates to the nominating convention if it keeps Jan. 29th primary. It’s good to see that the DNC still believes in enforcing the rules and not letting a big state like Florida throw it’s weight around and wreck up the Democratic primary schedule any more … Read more

An Appeal from Drinking Liberally

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UPDATE 8/27 @ 11PM: Thank you! We have met our goal and the PA system has been ordered. Thanks to the astute online shopping savvy of one of our members, we were actually able to obtain the system we wanted for a bit less than estimated: just over $140. The excess funds will be applied … Read more