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. ▼

BOOM: Heritage Foundation in Free Fall as 30 Staff and Donors Flee from Sponsor of Project 2025

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Nearly the entire legal and economic policy staff of the right-wing Heritage Foundation – more than 30 employees – have resigned or been fired in the last few days. The mass exodus is a dramatic rebuke of Heritage President Kevin Roberts for his refusal to retract an October video supporting Tucker Carlson for embracing the white nationalist, … Read more

Two Democrats Say the Corporation Commission Is Broken—and Arizonans Are Paying the Price

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Arizona voters rarely think about the Corporation Commission — until their utility bill explodes. That obscure office tucked down the ballot controls electricity, water, railroads, pipelines and utility rates. And according to two Democratic candidates running this year, it has become the most powerful and least accountable board in state government. “We’re supposed to have … Read more

Trump Declares War on Venezuela

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Trump has announced that the U.S. is at war with the South American country of Venezuela so that the U.S. can steal its oil. When did Congress authorize that? It didn’t. Trump has usurped the power of Congress to declare war, and last night labeled the independent nation, founded in 1811, a “foreign terrorist organization.”  … Read more

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

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