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.

Giffords Makes First Podcast

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Gabby Giffords’ first podcast has been released. To my knowledge it is the first podcast of Arizona’s CD 8 campaign. There are some issues with the content of the podcast, but I have to give her campaign props for proper distribution. The podcast is available at iTunes, which will certainly increase the discoverability of the … Read more

Arizona Congressional District 8 Political Sign Critique

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I thought it would be amusing to take a look at some of the simplest form of political messaging in the CD 8 race: street and yard signs. I believe political signs mostly reassure supporters that your campaign is heathly and viable. Yet doing them badly may be worse than not doing them at all. … Read more

Campaign Whispers: Keeping the CD 8 Seat

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Congressional District 8 is a majority Republican district. We Democrats tend to forget this essential fact. It is a fairly narrow majority, less than 20K voters, amid a sea of independentents and unregistered voters who can swamp any party advantage. Really, CD 8 is the only Arizona District that is truly competitive, there only being … Read more

Latas Produces Most Innovative Mailer of the Season

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Jeff Latas has set a new bar for political communication with his DVD mailer. Other campaigns have used mass produced DVDs before, but not on such a tight over-all budget, or on such a scale. Generally, campaign DVDs have been distributed to supporters as part of a house party strategy, or for use at public … Read more

Roy Warden Rides Again

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Roy Warden, the anti-immigrationist who burns Mexican flags (an activity which I think is rather stupid, but I none-the-less recognize as being constitutionally protected symbolic speech), will be holding a new First Amendment fest next week on Aug. 17th at 6pm in Armoury Park. I won’t be able to make it, but if anyone wants … Read more