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.

True Majority Calls for Paper Ballot Funding

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Support emergency funding to the states to print paper ballots in the upcoming election. From a True Majority action alert:"Paperless electronic voting machines will be used once again this fall, and already during the primaries they failed. In Maryland crowds of legal voters were turned away from the polls when the machines couldn’t be started. … Read more

Vote For… Hackeneyed Political Moonshine

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The Ad Council recently released a series of political spots aimed at boosting youth voting. The ads, and an Onionesque companion web site, highlight to superior qualifications for office of several more or less inanimate objects. The ads are just brilliant and deserve some viral love.

Bringing the National Intelligence Estimate to the Districts

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UPDATE: The Administration is predictably refusing to release anything but a redacted version of the Key Judgments section of the NIE, even while slyly implying through Administration members and proxies that the devil is in the details of the report. They had a pretty good strategy – release selected portions before any pressure to release … Read more

Gifford/Graf Debates

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The campaigns have come to an agreement on debates. There will be six debate with two televised, if you consider Access cable and KUAT to be televised. I’m rather surprised there are so many. I would have predicted 2 or 3, all televised. And I would have packed more of them into mid-October. Should be … Read more