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.

Arizona Commission on Judicial Performance Review: How to Vote That Mysterious Judicial Retention Section of the Ballot

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The best guide for the citizen interested (as few are) in making an informed vote on judicial retention is the Arizona Commission on Judicial Performance Review. Unlike voting based on party affiliation like the ideologues over at Sonora Alliance are advocating, retention should be based on ability, not ideology. I’m not kidding myself that many … Read more

Tom Horne charged with elections law violations

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UPDATE 10/30: The Arizona Education Association just issued a press release announcing that it has filed two complaints with the Maricopa County Elections Department regarding these incidents on behalf of their over 32,000 members. This is good news. A good scandal seems to be the only way to get voters to seriously consider a down-ticket … Read more

Resignation of 3 AZ GOP Mayors Demanded for Endorsing Napolitano

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AZ Republic: 3 GOP mayors asked to quit. GOP leaders from Legislative District 4 on Friday called for the resignations of three West Valley mayors, all registered Republicans, because of their endorsement of Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat… Conservative members hope to pressure those holding more moderate views to remain silent in deference to Len … Read more

Bill Maher Puts America In Its Place

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Why are comedians recently the only ones who seem to be telling the whole, unvarnished truth about politics? I think it may be because the truth is so bad, that it’s either going to make you laugh, or it’s going to make you cry. Nobody wants to listen to the version that comes with tears, … Read more

Project Use it or Lose it in Arizona

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Moveon.org has joined with Chris Bowers of MyDD.com to push safe incumbents to open their warchests to fund newly competitive districts. The chief target for this effort in Arizona is Ed Pastor. He has only token Republican opposition, in the form of the risable perennial candidate Don Karg, and has over a million bucks in … Read more