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.

Graf, the NRCC and the GOP

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UPDATE 9/24: The DCCC has also pulled national funding from the race. It seems likely that both parties are going silent to await further developments in the district. I don’t buy it. I’ve seen the irrational exurberance among Dems inspired by the NRCC’s decision to pull over 1 million of scheduled advertising in CD 8, … Read more

Diebold Stealing Your Votes

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A horrifying demonstration of just how easy it is to steal your most precious right. Contact your County Board of Supervisors and tell them about your concerns. You can also join a fine local grassroots organization working to protect your rights: AUDIT AZ.

Nintzel, He Teases Me…

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This week in Tucson Weekly’s The Skinny, Jimmy Nintzel did me the solid of an extended quote. But at the same time he brained me for holding an inconsistent position. "Still, most lefties remain in denial that Clean Elections is turning into a disaster for the left. Take blogger Michael Bryan, who normally writes insightful … Read more

Giffords Positioned to Win CD 8

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Giffords has a 19% lead among likely voters in CD 8 according to polling by Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner Research. The poll, conducted Sept. 13th through 18th, sampled 500 likely voters with a MOE of 4%. It shows Giffords solidly ahead of Graf 54% to 35% with only 6% of voters undecided, and the remaining 5% … Read more

Drinking Liberally 9/21

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This week, Drinking Liberally will be held at the usual time and place: The Shanty on 4th Ave starting at 6pm. There are no special events or guests scheduled this week, just good conversation, good times, and good beer with like-minded liberals. Last week, we had a Drinking Liberally beer tasting. We tasted about 10 … Read more