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.

Action Alert – National Call-In to Stop the Surveillance

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued an action alert on two bills in Congress seeking to legalize, post-facto, the Bush wiretapping operations ruled unconstitutional by a Federal District Court last month. Please reach out to your elected representatives and let them know  your opinion. EFF is a great organziation. If you are not already a … Read more

Ecolanguage Videos

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Every wonder how to get your idiot Republican brother-in-law to understand that he got screwed by Bush’s tax cuts? Well, wonder no longer. Just sit him down at the computer and show him this excellent graphical explanation by Moving Symbol at ecolanguage.com. Now, you want to show why privatizing Social Security by investing in the … Read more

Labor Relations on Labor Day

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Seems that an overly enthusiastic Gabby volunteer took a step over the line in preparing the Pima Democratic Party newsletter announcing the Labor Day AFL-CIO/PALF picnic. The volunteer very clearly implied that the event was a Pima Democratic Party event and that that the Party was endorsing the listed candidates. Join us at Reid Park … Read more

The Gabby Gaggle

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I really don’t get what everyone is squawking about over Weiss’ criticism of Gabby’s legislative record. All Patty did was use some statistics on Gabby’s voting record crunched by her staff, and made a very theatrical, and somewhat hyperbolistic, pronouncement about what they found. I don’t think it was particularly well-done (and I would have … Read more

FEC Pre-Primary Report High-Lights Around Arizona

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Note: I have arbitrarily decided to simply not talk about any campaign that hasn’t yet topped $50K. It’s not because they aren’t competitive, it’s because their little pile of money isn’t very interesting, and there are just too many of them. They are like baby sea turtles. They may make it to the ocean and … Read more