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.

Kelli Ward, et al, Should Expect Indictments Soon

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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez’s reporting in WaPo makes it very clear that AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes has developed the investigation of the fake elector scheme and Ward’s efforts to corruptly influence the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election in Arizona to the point that Grand Jury indictments are now all but inevitable. The Arizona attorney general’s … Read more

Make Hank Pay!

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Here at BlogForArizona we love journalists – especially those whose beat is Arizona’s politics and government. We really would be in the dark if it weren’t for their hard work. One news org we LOVE is Hank Stephenson’s Arizona Agenda. It’s as close to pure uncut, unadulterated political journalism as one can get. Hank just … Read more

UPDATED: Cochise County Supervisors’ Chickens Come Home to Roost… Carrying Subpeonas.

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The intrepid Jen Fifield at VoteBeat reports that legal trouble is brewing for the two Cochise County Supervisors and scoff-laws Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby who tried to hold up certification of the elections in 2022 to cater to lies and obstructionism of sore-losers #LyingLoserLake, Mark “Fink” Finchem, and #LyingAbe Hamadeh. Arizona Attorney General Kris … Read more

Why I Have Voted YES on Tucson’s Prop 413

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Tucson’s ballot measure to raise the salaries of the Tucson Mayor and Council Persons deserves our support, which is why I voted YES, and you should, too. The city’s fact sheet has some reasonable points: The 2023 Citizens’ Commission on Public Service and Compensation (CCPSC), an all-volunteer and diverse group of seven residents, studied these … Read more