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.

Is a Democratic Upset in the AZ State Senate Brewing?

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As I write a new batch of votes in Maricopa and Pima Counties were counted, and we are pending another batch, probably around 6pm. So take all of this with the degree of uncertainty I intend to covey, which is considerable. But I’ve noticed something that just might prove crucial to control of the AZ … Read more

Arizona’s Blue Tide

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We have all heard the media tout over and over again the now-debunked myth of a ‘red wave’ this cycle. What we are not yet hearing widely is the fact that, in Arizona, we seem to have experienced a definitive Blue Tide, instead. The story that the media should be telling about this election is one … Read more

Help Us Cure Democratic Ballot Signatures! Every Vote Matters!

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If you are sitting at home biting your nails down to the quick, and refreshing the Arizona election results like mad, you might consider Xanax, or, better yet, helping Democratic voters cure defects on their mail-in ballots. Mission For Arizona is running phone banks and (especially critical) canvasses to help Arizona Democratic voters cure defective … Read more

The Red Ripple in Arizona

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Ballots are still being counted in many races, but the overall national gestalt of midterm ’22 is clear: this is the weakest performance by the out party in the past two generations. There are a few main reasons, IMO, for the GOP’s historic misfire: They attacked women’s fundamental constitutional right to autonomy and full equality. … Read more

Anderson Cooper Calls Out Kari Lake’s Gaslighting and Cruelty

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On CNN, Anderson Cooper hit back on Kari Lake’s gaslighting denial of having made a flippant punchline out of the stalking of Nancy Pelosi and the murderous assault on Paul Pelosi:

Kari clearly intended to make light of this deranged act of political terrorism in order to get a roar of derisive approval from her bloody-minded and cruel MAGA crowd. But don’t believe your own lying eyes, Kari insists; she hopes that Arizona voters will believe her spinning and gaslighting when her own words and actions are on tape! She’s just another damned MAGA liar with zero respect for the intelligence or common sense of the public.

#KKKari has proven time and again that her go-to tactic is to lie and claim the media is deceptive or “fake” when reporting on her radical, cruel, hateful, and dangerous behavior and – such as it is – her ‘agenda’. Whether it’s associating with bigots, lying about her past, lying about election security, or, now, lying about her own callous comments, Kari can never be trusted to tell the truth, just like her idol and the model for her disgusting conduct, Donald Trump.

Kari’s only goal in running for AZ Governor is to have a national platform from which to create sufficient chaos and MAGA insanity to keep Trump’s attention until he selects his running mate for 2024. At the rate at which Trump is coming under criminal and civil legal jeopardy for his crimes during and after his Presidency, he’ll need a proxy who isn’t in a jail cell to help him campaign. Kari dreams only of being that poisonous presidential proxy.