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.

Apparently, Not Quite Everyone is Sick of Sinema… Just Arizona Democrats – Independents, Too!

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An interesting tidbit from some of Sinema’s Democratic colleagues inside the Beltway from Julia Ioffe… The Sinema Lovefest: One of the more counterintuitive themes to emerge from my recent conversations with Senate Democratic sources is that Kyrsten Sinema, who officially left the party late last year, is surprisingly now being seen by many inside the party as … Read more

ADP State Committee Meeting Results

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Today was the state committee meeting of the AZ Democratic Party, of which I am a member. Bottom Line Voting Results: There was an election to replace our Senior Vice Chair Yamanata, who recently resigned. The candidates were Bonnie Heidler of Pima County and Elisabeth Tyndall of Cochise County. Ms. Heidler was elected 269/219. We … Read more

Arizona Voted for a Change in Leadership – and Boy, Are We Glad We Did

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With our economy staggering to recover from post-pandemic inflation and a number of civil liberties under attack from an increasingly extreme conservative end of the political spectrum, Arizona desperately needed the refresh to our state’s executive leadership resulting from the last election cycle.  Our newly elected leaders are charting a new course to rebrand Arizona … Read more

Blake, Lake, or Sheriff Fake for Arizona Senate?

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Seems that Blake Masters is planning on launching another off-putting, incel-vibing, tech bro, creepy weirdo campaign for Senate in Arizona. Maybe he’ll reuse his exceedingly-offputting-silencer-shooting video? Perhaps this time he’ll shoot a make-a-homemade-bomb-and-plant-it-at-a-government-building video? Clearly, he knows something the rest of us don’t… yet. Given that Blake and Lake and Fake Cowboy Sheriff Lamb all … Read more

MariCo GOP Seeks to Shut Down AZ’s GOP Presidential Primary and Gift the Nomination to Felonious Trump

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In a recent Maricopa GOP newsletter from news@maricopagop.org, as authorized by the leadership, a plan to deny AZ Republicans their choice of a Presidential nominee was clearly laid out: ACT NOW TO RECLAIM ELECTION INTEGRITY ON ELECTION DAY!Don’t let Adrian Fontes and Stephen Richer remove Donald Trump from the ballot! Urge AZGOP Chair Jeff DeWit and the AZGOP Board NOW … Read more