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.

Shadegg’s Party

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Representative Shadegg of Arizona is making a bid for the minority whip post in the new Republican minority leadership. This excerpt from his letter demonstrates that the GOP isn’t chasted by their loss at all. If anything, movement conservatives are more out of touch with reality than ever. "The vicious onslaught of attacks against us, … Read more

Reading Liberally Books Through May

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Reading Liberally is the book club for discussion of current books on issues of politics, current events, and government. Reading Liberally meets here in Tucson on the first Wednesday of every month at 7 pm. The location is changed monthly at this point, though it may settle upon a permanent location at some point, so … Read more

Drinking Liberally 11/9 Post-Mid-Term Edition

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You are invited to the Post-Mid-Term Edition of Drinking Liberally! We have plenty of reason to celebrate the Democratic takeover of the primary branch of government in our nation’s capitol. It’s time to talk about what we want a Democratic Congress to accomplish. Come on down to the Shanty on 4th Avenue this Thursday evening, … Read more

Shadegg launches Bellweather Leadership Race

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AZ Rep. Shadegg, re-elected comfortably last night, announced his bid for the Minority Leadership position in the reorganized House. Shadegg ran a dark horse leadership campaign to replace Tom DeLay as Majority Leader, losing to Rep. Boehner. Presumably, Shadegg will seek to re-launch the conservative revolution which swept him into office in 1994, his full … Read more

The Great State Victory

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The headlines today are, of course, Democrats retaking the House, and likely the Senate (the AP has declared Webb the winner in VA, giving Dems the Senate). But equally important, and indicative of the deep political movement yesterday’s election represents, is the less heralded news that Democrats took 9 new state legislative chambers last night, … Read more