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.

Interview with Annie Loyd, Independent for Congress in Arizona’s CD3

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Annie Loyd is running for Congress in CD 3 as an Independent. She will be facing incumbent John Shadegg (R) and Democratic challenger Bob Lord in the general election. I sent Annie a questionnaire about her views and positions on the issues that she returned as a PDF that you can download, or read online by clicking the continuation link below.

Annie and I also had a roughly half-hour telephone conversation following up on her answers, and touching on some additional matters, which you can listen to as a podcast.

The full questionnaire is after the click…

Harry Mitchell, Damned if he do, Damned if he don’t

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Harry can’t seem to catch a break. Under fire from members of his own party for pandering to the right on the Iraq war, tax cuts and the Bush Administration’s illegal wiretapping of Americans, Harry’s now catching hell from those same Republicans he’s trying to court over an overtime switch of his vote on a … Read more

BfAZ Democratic Presidential Enthusiasm Poll

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To complete the poll, just click the number of stars that equates to your relative enthusiasm for that candidate. Give candidates a minimum of 1 star to indicate minimal enthusiasm, and 5 stars to indicate your favorite, or favorites. If you aren’t enthused by any of the folks listed, you needn’t give anyone all five … Read more

Considered Action to hold Democrats Accountable

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Harry Mitchell votes to legalize Bush’s violations of FISA and to continue secret warrantless spying on American citizens’ communications and data mining of their private information. Harry co-sponsors capital gains and estate tax cuts while working Americans are suffering. Gabby Giffords and Harry Mitchell both abandon their caucus to vote to continue funding the war … Read more

Mitchell and Giffords Draw Fire From the Left

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Harry Mitchell and Gabby Giffords are hearing radio ads telling them to straighten up and fly… er, left on the Iraq war. Some Democrats are doing more than complaining about Harry and Gabby’s votes to continue funding Bush’s folly in Iraq. Here’s the ad: Listen to Voided.mp3 Get out your checkbook now and send Harry … Read more