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 and well-known leader, having served as a teacher at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of Arizona, Video Manager for Iskashitaa Refugee Network, Chair of the LD18 Democrats, and President of the Democrats of Greater Tucson.‎ ✍ A common-sense business leader, he operated a successful marketing consultancy for 20 years. He is skilled in fundraising, ChatGPT, 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 editorials 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, watching film noir, going on outings with his Portuguese Water Dog, weight training, and meeting his many friends for lattes at breakfast.‎ ‎** Scroll down to see my articles below. **

Kirsten Engel Challenges GOP Candidates to Disavow Jan. 6 Coup Attempt as “Legitimate Public Discourse”

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Former State Senator Kirsten Engel challenged Juan Ciscomani and State Senator Kelly Townsend to disavow the Republican National Committee’s recent statements calling the January 6th attempted coup a “legitimate public discourse.” “We all saw what happened 13 months ago. Barricades were toppled, police officers beaten, and the halls of Congress stormed by insurrectionists attempting to … Read more

Pima County Attorney Laura Conover Recovers $1 Million for Fraud Victims

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Since launching an anti-fraud squad a year ago, Pima County Attorney Laura Conover has recovered nearly $1 million for local victims of housing, internet and financial scams. “Fraud attracts certain minds. It’s so different from prosecuting violent crime,” Conover said at a meeting of Democrats of Greater Tucson. “These prosecutors and investigators and staff get boxes … Read more

Now in the Legislature: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

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“While Republicans continue to destroy our democracy, we work to rebuild and strengthen it,” says the Arizona Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. The Arizona Legislature has 30 days left to find the two-thirds vote needed to override the 1980’s Aggregate Expenditure Limit (AEL) or public school districts will be forced to give back the $1.2 Billion that they have already … Read more

Be Like Ron Williams, and Testify to Save Democracy

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Martin Luther King’s assassination, the civil rights movement and social justice advances have always been core motivations politically for Ron Williams of Goodyear, AZ, the editor of the Mule News. “I see these voting bills for what they are — suppression of Black, Brown and Indigenous voters and not about ‘election integrity,’” he says. Not … Read more

Tucson’s Own Gabriella Cázares-Kelly Appears on the Lawrence O’Donnell Show

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 [00:00:00] Lawrence O’Donnell: Our next guest, like Kyrsten Sinema, is an activist in Arizona, democratic politics before being elected to office herself in September of 2019. Gabriella Cázares-Kelly discovered that the county recorder’s office in her county, Pima County, Arizona maintains voter registration records in 2020. Gabriella Cázares-Kelly ran for the office herself and won. She … Read more

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