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’ SB1065 Vote Analyzed To Death

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A pseudonymous blogger called Dogma, who says that he is a 45-year-old military systems analyst from St. David Arizona, wrote a very fair and concise analysis of the controversial SB1065 bill from 2004. The post was buried at the end of a long thread of comments on Art Jacobson’s blog Data Port, on June 9th. … Read more

Reconsidering a Guest Worker Program

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I have done that naughtiest of things: I have flip-flopped. I have concluded that a policy I used to tepidly  favor is, in fact, a poor idea and losing proposition for the Democratic Party. So, now I guess I’m unelectable. Oh well… The Gordian knot of immigration is the conflict between the GOP’s nativists, Democrats’ … Read more

CD 8 Conventional Wisdom Changes

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So that’s it for Graf. With the revelation about his spectacularly poor judgement in his professional associations, Graf’s grassroots hate-fest is going down in flames. Oh, he’ll twitch for bit yet, but he’s pretty much done. Stick a fork in him. I almost feel sorry for him, but God, who the hell hires a fucking … Read more

Our Magical Thinking Congress

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The House passed a resolution declaring that the United States will win
the War on Terror. The first surprise is the utter unreality that must
exist in our Congress for such a declaration to seem like a sensible
use of resources. The second is that it received the craven support of
42 Democrats in passing.

The complete and institutionalized break from reality required for
anyone to think that simply declaring something to be true, even if
voted on by the House of Idiots, makes it the truth, or even merely
inspirational, makes me rather frightened and sad. The language of the
resolution is revealing of a national leadership deeply in denial about
the hard, cold facts of life.

Text of the Resolution and commentary after the jump…