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.

Sign up for Steve Farley’s FarleyGrams

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Steve Farley, the newly elected Representative of LD 28 is showing what solid constituent communication looks like. If you are interested in
state house affairs, I strongly recommend you sign up for his FarleyGrams.

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    Howdy, Friends o’ Farley…

[a note to LD28 PCs–I just realized you might like to get this email
every week, so you are now on this list. If you would like the previous
six emails, let me know and I will send them to you in one LONG email.
If you don’t want to be on this list, let me know that, too.]

Wow, another huge Government Committee meeting. That’s two in a row at
five hours plus. But I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else right now.
(Even though I am suffering from fever and other effects of some nasty
virus that is tearing through this place.)

The Government Committee, upon which I sit as Ranking Member, has
turned out to be the showcase committee for all the big Republican
policy pushes. Last week it was their efforts to gut the citizen
initiative process, Clean Elections, and HealthCareGroup. (A quick
aside on that–I am now leading the fight to save HCG after being asked
to do so by the Governor’s staff who watched me go nose to nose with
the Speaker on that last week.) This week’s topic: immigration.
 

An Election Integrity Event

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Steven Freeman has the real facts about the 2004 election; he is award winning author, election integrity activist and will be presenting and having a book signing in Tucson at 6:30 pm this Friday, Feb. 23rd at the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union Hall. For those in Tucson, please stop by and meet Steven and bring … Read more

Iran in Iraq: SFW?

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The entire media-scape is littered with accusations, speculation, refutation, and rhetoric regarding the allegations by a faction within the Bush Administration that Iran is supplying shaped explosive charges to militias who engage in armed conflict with American and coalition forces in Iraq. The whole thing boils down to a very dubious set of facts and … Read more

BillHop.com – Arizona

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Link: BillHop.com – Arizona. Hate the Arizona Legislature’s billtracker? I do. It is cludgey, hard to edit, badly designed, and not easy to refer to. Maybe that’s all intentional… Moreover, it is hard for distributed, loosely coordinated groups to collaborate to markup and publicize bills they like and don’t like. Blogs have their place, but … Read more