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.

AZSecState Candidate Adrian Fontes Makes a Plea to Protect Our Elections

June 24, 2022June 15, 2022 by Michael Bryan

Adrian Fontes, former Maricopa County Recorder and current Democratic candidate for AZ Secretary of State, made an impassioned plea for Democrats to get involved as election volunteers to counter the plans of the GOP to steal the election by training volunteers on how to gum up our election process from the inside. I’ve already gone … Read more

Maricopa AZGOP Encouraging Their Voters to Disenroll from Mail Balloting

June 14, 2022 by Michael Bryan

I was surprised to find that the Maricopa County GOP is officially encouraging voters to actively disenroll from participation in mail-in balloting. From their official county party newsletter: The newsletter doesn’t explain why a voter would want to do such a thing. I assume that the move is part of the on-going separation from reality … Read more

Kirsten Engel is First to Air Ad in CD6 Race

June 13, 2022 by Michael Bryan

Kirsten Engel and her daughter Helene appear in the first broadcast campaign ad of the season for Congressional District 6. It’s a simple, sweet introduction to the candidate framing the key issues she (and Helene…) wants to run on. Coming to a television near you… if you still watch broadcast or cable tv 😉 Kirsten … Read more

Emergency Powers on Guns

June 10, 2022 by Michael Bryan

Matt Grodsky is the Vice President, Director of Public Affairs at Matters of State Strategies, he previously served as the Director of Communications for the Arizona Democratic Party from 2019 to 2021. He is the author of Righteous Might: How Democrats Turned Arizona Blue And How You Can Flip Your Battleground State Twitter: @mattgrodsky The … Read more

Trump Attempted a Coup to Remain Illegally in Office on Jan6

June 13, 2022June 10, 2022 by Michael Bryan

The Jan6 Committee laid out the basic facts yesterday: Donald Trump knew he lost the 2020 election; Donald Trump planned multiple ways to overturn the result of that election by fraud and violence; Jan6 was the last-ditch attempt by Trump and his violent allies to overthrow the result of the election by force; Jan6 was … Read more