Larry Bodine

Larry is an articulate and insightful commentator whose views are shaped by a combination of journalism, entrepreneurship, law practice, and leadership.‎ ★★ Sign up for my occasional newsletter at Bit.ly/LBNow. ★★ ✍ He is an experienced leader, having served as Chair of the LD18 Democrats, and President of the Democrats of Greater Tucson, a teacher at the UA Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and Video Manager for Iskashitaa Refugee Network, ‎ ✍ A common-sense business leader, he operated a successful marketing consultancy for 20 years. He is skilled in fundraising, artificial intelligence, and online communications.‎ ✍He considers multiple viewpoints before forming an opinion. His ethos is the Boy Scout Law.‎ ✍ Larry is a lifelong writer, having worked as a seven-time award-winning journalist for the New York Daily News and as the author of 600 articles for the Blog for Arizona.‎ ✍He is a graduate of Amherst College and Seton Hall Law School and has also attended the University of Munich in Germany.‎ ✍He is not all work and no play. Larry enjoys singing and playing the guitar, hiking Tucson's beautiful trails, going on outings with his Portuguese Water Dog, weight training, and meeting his many friends for breakfast.‎ ‎▼ Scroll down to see my articles below. ▼

Democrats Unite Behind Soto, Volk and Lyon in Pivotal LD17 Legislative Races at Tucson Endorsement Event

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Enthusiastic Democrats from across Southern Arizona unified in a show of support for candidates Edgar Soto for State Senate and Kevin Volk and Holly Lyon for State House in Legislative District 17 at a May 27 endorsement event at Brother John’s Beer, Bourbon & BBQ. The event brought together dozens of energized Democrats who aim to flip the battleground district to blue. Rep. Kevin … Read more

Get a Petition and Break the Mass Deportation Machine

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“I was kidnapped,” said Karla Toledo when vicious ICE goons in black masks illegally broke down her front door. ICE had no search warrant, and Karla had no criminal record, yet she was thrown into the deadly Eloy Detention Prison for four days. Why? She was a DACA recipient who grew up in the U.S. … Read more

Where’s All that Oil from Venezuela?

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Now that the U.S. is “running” Venezuela after spending $4.7 billion on “Operation Southern Spear” to steal the country’s oil – where the heck is it? It’s not turning up as gasoline at your corner gas station. Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven reserves, the largest in the world. That’s one-fifth of the world’s … Read more

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