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.

Who is William “Bill” Johnson, Candidate for CD 8?

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UPDATE: Picked up by Dave Niewert at Orcinus. It surprised a lot of people when William Daniel Johnson jumped into the Democratic primary in Arizona’s Congressional District 8 at the last minute. He filed his FEC organization on 5/13/06, and filed 1430 signatures on 6/14/06 out of the blue. That’s nearly as many signatures as … Read more

Towards An Oil Free Congress

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UPDATE: The rally went very well. We had about 50 people turn out and media coverage from KGUN 9 News. Patty Weiss and Franchine Shacter both came in person, along with volunteers and representatives from the Latas and Giffords campaigns. Patty took a pledge on camera, and Shacter and Giffords also intend to take a … Read more

Drinking Liberally 6/22

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This evening beginning at 6pm, Liberals will be Drinking at the Shanty. The Shanty is located in Downtown Tucson at 9th Street and 4th Avenue at the underpass. There will be free sandwiches tonight courtesy of the Shanty. Tonight our guests are Democratic Councilman Steve Leal and Democratic candidate for Congress in District 2, Dr. … Read more

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