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.

GOP Certainly Hasn’t Lost Nerve

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Link: Letter Proposing Minority Bill of Rights by Republicans. The House Minority (GOP) leadership transmitted a letter to Pelosi requesting minority protections that Pelosi requested herself in 2002 (and were completely ignored, of course). What is so incredibly wrong here is that there is not one word of acknowledgment of how the GOP majority systematically … Read more

Kolbe Makes His GOP Retirement Confession

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Link: Kolbe: GOP on wrong path. I was gratified and impressed by some of Kolbe’s candor upon retirement. I found myself strongly in agreement on his views on the theocrats’ misguided culture war and his realization that the Iraq war must be ended. Why is it that Republicans seem only to be able to tell … Read more

Drinking Liberally 12/28

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Happy New Year! (Well, almost…) As 2007, the penultimate year of the Bush Debacle, creeps up on us, Liberals will be gathering at the Shanty on 4th Avenue this Thursday evening starting at 6pm to begin the process of drinking away the memories of Auld Lang Syne. This week, in the tradition of Time Magazine, … Read more

The Nazi Philosopher at the root of GOP politics

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Link: The Chronicle: 4/2/2004: A Fascist Philosopher Helps Us Understand Contemporary Politics. An interesting look at Nazi intellectual Carl Schmitt’s political philosophy and how it lives and breathes in today’s movement Conservatism. At base, Schmitt saw politics as a no-holds-barred struggle to define who is a friend and who is an enemy – an art … Read more

Subtopia: Orwellian Wormholes

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Link: Subtopia: Orwellian Wormholes. An interesting and comprehensive post on the tunnels beneath the Arizona border and what happens in them. A great read with lots of interesting links to other resources on the subject.