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 Likely Unlamented Half Hour News Hour Goes Down

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I love self-defeating efforts at propaganda by the Right. I cherish the absolute ugliness of everything that comes out of Ann Coulter’s mouth. I love it when fuckwads like Ted Stephens get up on the hind legs and rant. I love how completely clueless, unfunny, and outright offensive The Half Hour News Hour was. I … Read more

Now I Agree with Grover Norquist!

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A commenter on my agreement with Dick Cheney speculated what might be next: Reagan, Mecham, Graf? Well, I gotta say, the fact is even stranger than the speculation. In what is becoming an on-going series, the latest right wing nut job that I happen to have some small and likely transient area of bi-partisan kumbayah is Grover "Drown It In The Bathtub" Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Grover seems to have gotten a bug up it about government transparency, and I have to say I’m all for that. He recently published a piece in the Financial Times that I wholeheartedly applaud and support:

"The nice venture capitalists in
Silicon Valley are always looking for “the next big thing”. While we
will have to wait for another six months to learn who will make it
through the Republican and Democrat “Survivor” reality show we call
primaries we can already see the next big thing in politics bubbling up
from the 50 states: transparency. Making state budgets, contracts and
individual expenditures available to the public on the internet."

More after the click…

Now I Agree with Dick Cheney!

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Wow. First I agree with the Goldwater Institute, now I find myself in agreement with Dick Cheney! Of course, it is the Dick of 13 years ago, not the Dick of today, but none-the-less, I’m starting to worry about all this bi-partisanship on my part.

Fill ‘er Up in CD1

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The main event in Arizona politics in 2008, outside of the Presidential race, of course, will be the battle for control of CD1. It seems likely the Renzi won’t be standing for re-election and CD1 will become on open-seat free-for-all. Our nominee will likely need north of a million to compete in the district, just … Read more

Always Sorry to See His Backside

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Oh, Turdblossom. We hardly knew ya. So Rove is leaving the White House at the end of the month. I can’t quite figure out the angle here. ‘Cept maybe Bush doesn’t want Karl on staff when the indictment comes. His departure makes it harder for the White House to keep him out of the Congressional … Read more