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.

Oh, Hell No! Developers Want Waivers of 100 Year Assured Water Supply Certification for New Homes

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This would be BEYOND a terrible idea. No Dem should even contemplate supporting this nonsense. Developers in the Phoenix area want lawmakers to alter 43-year-old laws that restrict construction in areas without adequate water supply.  In a press release Thursday, the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona is not disputing that the state Department of … Read more

Kari Lake’s Delusions Aired at TPUSA’s Anti-SemiteFest

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Kari Lake spoke at length at Turning Point’s AmericaFest 2023, held in Florida this year, and flew her full-on delusional freak flag. She claimed – among many other delusions – that she and her attorneys are being unjustly persecuted for continuing to litigate her election lies (her attorneys are actually being investigated for their unethical … Read more

Colorado Is Important, But Take a Deep Breath.

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Yesterday’s bombshell news that the Colorado state Supreme Court decided 4-3 that Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the ballot for that state’s Republican Presidential Primary Election is echoing about the media today. But don’t get too exited: while this a historic political and legal landmark, it doesn’t mean what many are prematurely thinking … Read more

Poll Anxiety and Electoral Signals

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One of my favorite political analysists is Rachel Bitecofer, who publishes the SubStack newsletter The Cycle, among other projects. She is fiercely partisan and firmly on team democracy, but she is a hyper-qualified PhD in political behavior and statistical methodology, and just plain has lots of common sense, Here in Southern Arizona had a chance … Read more