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.

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

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.