Larry Bodine

Larry is an intelligent, articulate, and insightful commentator whose views are shaped by a combination of journalism, entrepreneurship, law practice, and leadership.‎ ✍ 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. **

Youth Coalition Drives 73% Turnout Among Contacted Arizona Voters

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Democrats can’t ignore Arizona’s youth vote anymore. Francesca Martin, deputy director of the Keep Arizona Blue Student Coalition, laid out how targeted youth organizing is already reshaping Arizona elections — and how much more is at stake in 2026. “We were told young voters don’t turn out,” Martin said. “What we proved is that when … Read more

Arizona Eagle PAC Aims to Jettison Paleoconservative Congressman Eli Crane

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Right-wing billionaires have kept Congressman Eli Crane (R-CD2) in office for three years. Still, the Arizona Eagle PAC aims to end his gun-loving, anti-abortion and anti-immigrant tenure in 2026. Crane, a hidebound reactionary: Crane is vulnerable in the competitive Congressional District 2 (Flagstaff), which spans vast rural areas including Apache, Coconino, Gila, Navajo, Yavapai, Graham, … Read more

Rep. Adelita Grijalva Battles Foreign Mining Giants to Cancel Oak Flat Mine Land Giveaway

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Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-CD7) launched her congressional career with a direct challenge to multinational mining corporations, introducing legislation that would block Rio Tinto and BHP from seizing 2,400 acres of sacred Apache land in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest.​ The “Save Oak Flat from Foreign Mining Act,” filed today as Grijalva’s first bill, aims to repeal … Read more

“ I should die because of what I said..?”—Mark Kelly Blasts Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Free Speech and Military Law

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Arizona’s senator warns of unprecedented danger as the president calls for executing members of Congress. TOP QUOTES BY US SENATOR MARK KELLY: In a searing speech before 200 people in Tucson on Dec. 5, 2025, U.S. Senator Mark Kelly delivered a withering indictment of Donald Trump’s presidency, framing it as an existential threat to constitutional … Read more

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