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.

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

TerrorStorm by Alex Jones

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Here’s your irresponsible speculation of the week in the form of a feature length movie. The thesis of TerrorStorm is that there is plenty of well-documented historical instances of ‘false flag’ terrorist operations by democratic governments intended to manipulate both foriegn and domestic constituencies, and that there is proof that many recent terrorist attack could … Read more

Campaign Whispers: Latas for Arizona Democratic Party Chairman?

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I heard an interesting rumor that deserves some competent mongering. If Jeff Latas doesn’t win the Democratic primary for Congress, there are lots of folks who would be very supportive of him becoming the new Arizona Democratic Party Chairman. It certainly seems a perfect fit. Many see Jeff as Arizona’s Howard Dean; right on target … Read more