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. **

No Hope for Gun Reforms Until 2020

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It is unlikely that Congress will do anything about gun safety until after the 2020 elections, when the pro-gun legislators should be voted out of office. The past is prologue and within two weeks social media, cable news, and print newspapers will jump on something besides the gun massacres in El Paso, Dayton, and Gilroy. … Read more

Merrill Eisenberg, the Outlaw Dirty Money Southern Arizona Coordinator

Get active in Outlaw Dirty Money at 11 Tucson Locations

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The Outlaw Dirty Monday campaign has opened 11 Tucson “depot” locations where volunteers and petition circulators can get petitions and information kits to put the initiative on the state ballot. The group, a non-partisan PAC to eliminate secret funders of political campaigns in Arizona elections, has collected 30,000 of the 357,000 required signatures. “Why is … Read more

Do This if You’re Sick of Gun Violence

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Nine dead in Dayton today. Twenty dead in El Paso yesterday. Three dead in Gilroy, California a week ago. America has entered a period of madness. Aren’t you sick of gun violence? I’m sick of it. It’s happening because anyone who wants a gun can get one. The problem is not video games or crazy … Read more

Kirsten Engel

Democrats Demand Code of Conduct for Legislators

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Democratic members of the House Ethics Committee today called on Speaker Rusty Bowers and Ethics Chairman T.J. Shope to keep their promise to develop a code of conduct for members. The House remains in violation of its own rule to have a code of conduct in place, which was approved in 2018 after the expulsion … Read more

Dorman and Romero Spar with Farley at Tucson Mayoral Forum

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Steve Farley appeared to be the Democratic candidate to beat in last night’s Tucson Mayoral Forum, as opponents Regina Romero and Randi Dorman traded barbs with him over affordable housing plans, campaign funding and staff, endorsements, who was the union candidate and the RedforEd movement. The forum at Rincon High School filled nearly every seat … Read more

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