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.

Panic Mode

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Via CQPolitics.com: NRCC Spends Nearly $8 Million in One Day on Tight Races. In Arizona’s 5th District Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth gets $240K with which to bash the hell out of Democratic state Sen. Harry Mitchell. That little piggie went to market. In Arizona’s 8th District Republican bete noir Randy Graf got $0 to beat … Read more

Losing the Freedom to Form Unions

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Via Stateside Dispatch: "The National Labor Relations Board ruled this week that a range of professionals, estimated at 8 million workers, are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. What this means is that an estimated 8 million workers who say a positive thing about unions can be fired at will … Read more

Ninth Cicuit Enjoins Use of Prop 200 in 2006 General Election

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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an inlocutory injuntion on the use of ID standards mandated by 2004’s Prop 200 in the 2006 general election and for voter registration until close of registration on Oct. 7th. The stay is temporary until the substantive question of the appeal, whether Prop 200 violates federal election laws, … Read more

Graf – Giffords Race Narrowing?

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Link: RealClearPolitics – Polls. The latest Zogby-Reuters poll is showing a narrowing gap (8 points) between Graf and Giffords. Graf basically hasn’t moved at 37%, but the poll is reading a drop off in support for Giffords to 45% and concominant increase in undecided voters to 16% The poll was taken between 9/25 and 10/2 … Read more

Not Friends of Steve Farley

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Link: www.explorernews.com. Steve Farley, Democratic nominee for State House in LD 28, former Tucson city council candidate, and public transportation activist, has been catching some flak from the red end of the media spectrum for some of his remarks about some of the GOP nominees for state lege in southern Arizona. Farley laid down some … Read more