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.

NSA Spying becoming an issue in Arizona Senate race

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It will come as no surprise that Bush’s controversial, and illegal, domestic wiretapping program is becoming an issue in the Kyl-Pederson Senate race. Kyl is a staunch Bush supporter and chairs the anti-terrorism Senate subcommittee. He is unflinching in reeling out the Administration’s descredited justification for the program at the drop of a hat and … Read more

Why I don’t support anyone in CD8… yet

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Ted has chosen his horse (Rum, Romanism and Rebellion: Why I Am Supporting Gabrielle Giffords) and I respect that, and think that he has made an entirely defensible choice. But I won’t be doing that. Unlike Ted, nobody I’m aware of gives a crap what I think. And, frankly, that’s probably wise, cause sometimes, upon … Read more

Coyote Carnival – 1st edition

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Coyote_2Welcome to the first edition of Coyote Carnival. In the near future,
these carnivals should be hosted at another local Arizona blog, to drive
traffic to that site. If you are interested in hosting, please contact
me. To ensure wide esposure, I am going to be cross-posting this first
carnival to BlogForArizona. This first edition doesn’t have a theme
except that all the entries are from Arizona-based blogs. We got a few
submissions that broke that rule, as well as a number that were just commercial advertising, but the great majority of the
submissions were acceptable, and most were accepted by the editor (me). The complete list is on the flip…

Total Information Awareness Runs Amok

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Stewart Heady of Tsaile, Arizona wrote in the mailing list ProgressForAZ the following interesting story which I think makes an important point about the need for oversight of datamining and roving surveillance systems: "In the year after 9/11 I was living in the Seattle area.  There are a lot of immigrants in the whole region … Read more