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.

Amen, Juan Ciscomani

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By Ricky Sage The Republican US House Representatives from Arizona are an extreme group. District 6 Rep. Juan Ciscomani tries to have it both ways. He portrays himself as a moderate. To a Republican audience, he says ‘Amen’ to extreme proposals. When they say, ‘Shut down the government and cut Social Security,’ he says, ‘Amen.’ … Read more

Wacko Wadsack Does it Again: She’s a 9/11 Conspiracist, Too!

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by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona MirrorSeptember 12, 2023 “On the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Tucson Republican state Sen. Justine Wadsack shared a fake transcript from United Flight 93 and liked multiple posts on social media alluding to the events of the day being a “false flag” and an “inside job.”  “It was … Read more

Margot Cowan On Legal Representation for Immigrants

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Margo has been fighting for years to get an initiative on the ballot to provide legal representation for those immigrants in deportation proceedings. Here is a great discussion of the issue on the Border Chronicle podcast. I also recommend subscribing to the Border Chronicle newsletter on substack. https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/people-need-representation-a-podcast?r=ql07&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Tucson Agenda and Arizona Agenda at TheDGT.org

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As you can see at the bottom of our homepage, the founders of the Arizona and Tucson Agenda newsletters joined TheDGT.org for a discussion of their journalistic mission in Arizona and the importance of real local journalism for our democracy. The Agenda’s gents shared with us some discount codes for new subscribers. So, once you’ve … Read more

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