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.

It’s Official: The GOP is the Party of Necrophilia

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The GOP paid for and released a two minute deception-fest depicting the 9/11 memorial as a travesty and an insult to the families of 9/11, the victims, the troops, and America itself. They are officially out of any policy ideas with which to defeat Janet Napolitano, so they’ve stooped to sucking the juices out of … Read more

KAET/Cronkite Poll on State Ballot Measures

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The same universe as the KAET/Cronkite Statewide Candidate poll also looked at upcoming ballot measures. The same 3% MOE and methodology applies to these results. I’ve color coded the measures according to the recommendation of my guide to ballot measures. The poll focuses mainly on the most confusing meausres, especially those pairs of measures in … Read more

KAET/Cronkite Poll on Statewide Races

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This statewide poll of 882 high probability (i.e., cast votes in 3 out of 4 past state-wide elections) registered voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent. The sample population was distributed by sex, age, party preference, and county of residence to reflect overall registered voter population of the state.• Governor:  … Read more

Mending Gabby’s Fences

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  Gabby Giffords’ latest campaign video is causing consternation in some Democratic circles, including one which is a major base of her biggest, and arguably most important supporter, Raul Grijalva. Some immigration rights and Hispanic civil rights activists are concerned that Gabby’s latest ad ‘Safe’ conflates the issue of homeland security to avert terrorism, with … Read more

Compromising with Torture

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"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."     – Mohandas Gandhi "There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce … Read more