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.

The Star Poll of CD 8 and the Democrats’ Achilles Heel

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The latest numbers from Carol Zimmerman polling for the AZ Daily Star are a surprise only to those who hoped the race had closed further. It confirms the trend shown by KAET’s earlier polling, but no one has been able show me a poll with any numbers tighter than 8% shown in the KAET poll. … Read more

Second Renzi Federal Investigation Under Way

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Quickly, people! We need a moniker to keep this thing sexy for the press. I vote for SwapGate (has the added benefit of an association with wife swapping). Let’s hear your suggestions. UPDATE 10/26: Let the backpedaling begin! As I feared, inconsistencies and distortions and innuendo in the breaking of the story has led the … Read more

Drinking Liberally 10/26

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Drinking Liberally will be meeting as usual at The Shanty on 4th Ave and 9th St, beginning at 6pm, this Thursday Oct. 26th. This week, our special guest is Tucson City Council Member Nina Trasoff. Please come and join Nina for conversation about the future of Tucson. Last week, we hosted City Council Member Carol … Read more