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.

More Troops, More Dollars

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Oppose the war in Iraq? Then you should know how much it has already cost and will cost Arizona’s citizens. Here’s a summary: The cost to taxpayers in Arizona of the running total of $378 billion will be $5.2 billion. Of the 3,024 U.S. soldiers that have been killed in the Iraq War, 75 are … Read more

H.R. 676 Reintroduced: Single Payer, Universal Healthcare!

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Want Single Payer, Universal Health Care? Well, it will be vetoed by the Current Resident, but the first step comes first: we gotta prove we can pass it. Grijalva and Pastor are already on board as sponsors. Time to contact Giffords and Mitchell and light a fire in their offices: H.R. 676 Reintroduced: Single Payer, … Read more

Leaders vs. Climbers

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I’ve been thinking a little about leadership lately. I’m going to make an extraordinary claim that many readers will disagree with: Bush is a great leader. Before I substantiate that claim, I’ll qualify it: while he’s a great leader, he’s leading in all the worst ways and to all the wrong ends. Bush is wrong … Read more

Republicash Establishment Terrified of Pullen

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Looks like the GOP establishment is officially terrified of Randy Pullen. They’ve rolled out the cage in which they keep their favorite attack troll, Nathan Sproul. Sproul comes out swinging in a letter to GOP State Committeemen, calling Pullen a liar, a braggart, a turn-coat, a light-weight who is unproven in fund-raising, and generally a … Read more

SOTU Six

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What a great time we Liberals had last night making fun of W’s 6th SOTU. By this time we can anticipate exactly what lies and distortions his speech writers will trot out. In fact, we played a round of SOTU bingo based on his favorite buzz words, phrases and subjects. I was tempted to play … Read more