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.

Does The Republican Party Hate Ted Downing? Yep.

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FINAL UPDATE: The State GOP has admitted paying for the robocalls and Downing recieved matching funds that he is using for a robocall of his own to set the record straight. Looks like Ted stepped on some sensitive GOP toes while in the legislature. My money is on Jan Brewer as the source of this … Read more

We Won’t Have John Bolton to Kick Around Anymore..

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As The Washington Note confirms, the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador from the United States is dead. While that’s great, Bolton is dangerously angry ideologue who had no business in diplomacy, the real story is who killed him. It was the GOP Senator from Rhode Island, Lincoln Chaffee, that put the bullet in … Read more

Iraq Foolery

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So sue me; I was reading the Wildcat. I know that the editorials are almost universally fatuous bullshit from cocksure little undergrads whose life experience can fit in the period at the end of this sentence, but even given my low expectations, I was flabbergasted by the presumption of one Matt Stone. Here is his … Read more

Your October Surprise, Sir…

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I was over on the Tucson Drinking Liberally bulletin board, and one of our lushes suggested that Bush was preparing an October surprise in the form of the trial of high-level Al Qaeda members, specifically of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (OBL’s putative No. 2) who is among the 14 high-level detainees in the war on terror … Read more

Shooting Doves on 9/11

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Occasionally, something comes to represent and reveal far more that was ever intended by it’s authors. I believe that this is one of those things. How could you possibly summarize everything that is wrong about the Republican Party more poetically than a GOP candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction who invites supporters to go dove … Read more