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.

Electoral crisis looms as Mexico vote is too close to call

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UPDATE 7/11: In a stunning reversal, Calderon pulled ahead of Obrador in the final stretch of the recount to reclaim a narrow 0.65% lead (236K votes out of ~41 million). The recount only retallied the polling box tallies, it did not recount the actual ballots, which is what Obrador is now demanding. Thousands have taken … Read more

Latest Polling Data in CD 8 Congressional Race

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I do so love an interesting poll. Patty Weiss recently released the main thrust of her latest set of polls showing her with a statistically significant lead in the in the Democratic Primary. Patty came in at 23% strong support (32% overall), Gabby Giffords comes in at 16% strong support (22% overall), Jeff Latas and … Read more

Protecting Your Rights in Police Encounters

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Every day I see the result of people’s complete ignorance of their legal rights when dealing with the power of the state. People routinely confess freely to misbehavior not even under investigation, allow unwarranted searches, and are induced to arbitrage their own penal interests against their freedoms by clever police officers. Assuredly, many people who … Read more

A Diddy from the Troops

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Our boys ‘over there’ are closer to us than ever before, thanks to internet technology and Web 2.0 sites like iFilm. Here’s a little music video from three GIs in the ‘Ghan that lets you know exactly what’s on their minds on a daily basis. BTW, VBIED stands for Vehicle Based Improvised Explosive Device, i.e. … Read more

Why Lopez Obrador is Right for Mexico… and America

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UPDATE: Greg Pallast points out that the Bush Administration may not be content with the outcome of democracy in Mexico. The Administration might be inclined to ensure the ‘right’ result. And ZMag has an interesting article on the potential for violence and direct action in this Sunday’s election. The economic case is made by the … Read more