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 Gun Posse Rides (Over a Cliff) Again

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Arizona state lawmakers are looking at requiring government premises to allow citizens to carry weapons on the premises unless they provide storage facilities in which to secure arms within 200 feet of the entrance. Once again, reasonable gun policy is falling victim to knee jerk extremist positions on both sides that have less to do … Read more

Giffords and Mitchell To Run With The Dogs

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The Hill is reporting that both Representatives Giffords and Mitchell are vying to be jumped into the Blue Dog Coalition, a select group of centrist Democrats who main focus is budgetary discipline and whose membership is currently capped at 47 lawmakers. This is, I hope, a mainly positive development. I strongly support most of what … Read more

I am not a Politician

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UPDATE: Gab and Steny Hoyer will be at the Lodge on the Desert, 306   N.Alvernon Way on Tuesday, May 29, 12:30 – 1:30. I encourage all who can to show up and let them know how you feel about their votes on Iraq and their failure to stop the war in Iraq. Link: Howard … Read more

Al Gore Unleashed

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Link: Al Gore slams ‘trivialities and nonsense’ in news media. Many have opined that Al Gore is absolutely not running for President because no Presidential candidate in his right mind would write a book like "The Assault on Reason". I can’t really speak to that in detail yet, because I haven’t finished the book, but … Read more

Bush Wins, Dems Mulligan, Troops Lose

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There is likely to be a lot of backslapping among Democrats who think that allowing the occupation of Iraq to continue without any conditions or accountability is smart politics, even though it is disastrously bad policy: at least Bush owns the policy, not us, is the thinking. It is true that now that the Democratic … Read more