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 Failing to Deliver in Congress

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I’m so angry I could spit. The Democratic caucus in Congress is proving that they didn’t understand the voters when we elected a Democratic majority. The election of 2006 was a referendum on the Iraq war and this Administration’s handling of the ‘War on Terror’. We handed our new Democratic Congress a mandate to provide … Read more

Farleygrams Again

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Steve Farley is setting the standard for constituent communication with his newletter. You can and should join his mailing list, even if you aren’t in LD 28. Steve’s latest has a call to action for those on the Northwest side of Tucson to help save the state-run Health Care Group program: We will see the … Read more

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell = Lie

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Our military has always led the way in the desegregation of our society. It is, in many ways, the most meritocratic of our national institutions. It should be a fundamental right of Americans to help defend their nation by service in the armed forces, if they are physically capable. ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is fundamentally … Read more