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.

Giffords Gets $30 Million in SCAAP Funding Restored

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Link: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords gets SCAAP Funding Restored. SCAAP is the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which reimburses local law enforcement agencies for the cost of imprisoning undocumented aliens. You may remember the flap that Gov. Napolitano created by sending overdue bills to Washington for over $300 million in unpaid SCAAP reimbursements. Well, Gabby scored … Read more

Mitchell Seeks Cuts to Wealth Taxes

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Link: Mitchell co-sponsors bill that aims to cut capital gains and estate tax. WTF is Mitchell thinking? Cutting Capital Gains and Estate taxes overwhelmingly benefits the wealthiest Americans, who need it least. Mitchell prattled about the ways in which these cuts would benefit the average person selling stock or a house, but completely ignored the … Read more

Andrew Thomas’ Hasty Pudding

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Link: Thomas seeks faster process for death row appeals. The Maricopa County Attorney, Andrew Thomas, likes to play by Red Queen’s rules: he yells, "Off with their heads!" and every one had better jump to it. Now he’s written to AG Gonzales seeking to implement stream-lined appeals for the 113 death row inmates in Maricopa … Read more