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.

Democrats at Google

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I ran across these and thought they were pretty interesting and might escape notice. There is a stream of candidates heading to Google to kiss the ring of the internets’ 800 pound gorilla. Hillary Clinton: Bill Richardson: John Edwards: On the other side of the aisle John McCain and, recently Ron Paul have appeared at … Read more

Dr. Carmona Delivers a Rebuke

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I knew there was a reason I’ve always liked this guy, despite his being on the wrong side of politics. Tucson’s own Dr. Richard Carmona, all around cowboy and former Surgeon General in the Bush Administration has come out swinging at the Administration’s muzzling of him on important, but politically sensitive topic during his tenure. … Read more

New Feature: Social Bookmarking

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Mike says: "Typepad has finally made available an integrated social bookmarking feature. In the footer of each post, you will now see links to Digg and Delicious for that post. I ask you to please use these links to let people know when you enjoy a post here on Blog For Arizona. Thanks! "

The Red Wall of Silence

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Link: Ex-aides limit testimony on attorneys "Excuse me Ms. Taylor, but your Fuhrerprinzip is showing…" You might have heard the term ‘The Blue Wall of Silence‘ in reference to police propensity to circle the wagons in response to investigations of police misconduct. I think the title is an appropriate sobriquet for what we’re seeing here … Read more

Yay! Another Impeachment Rant

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Gabby Giffords came to Drinking Liberally and we all had some good fun. There should be video of the event available here soon. One of the questions that came up was the issue of whether Gabby was open to impeachment of the President and Vice President. During the campaign, she was rather dismissive of the … Read more