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  • Report: Democrat Boss Swung N.J. Land Gift

    01/02/2005 3:33:04 PM PST · by flitton · 11 replies · 616+ views
    AP via The Guardian ^ | 02/01/04 | unknown
    PENNSAUKEN, N.J. (AP) - The oil company that owns Petty's Island wanted to donate it to the state as a nature preserve while local officials and a land developer were planning on building homes and a golf course on it. When the state rejected the donation offer, it was partly at the behest of southern New Jersey Democratic powerbroker George E. Norcross III, according to a report in Sunday's editions of The Philadelphia Inquirer. The newspaper obtained a copy of a Sept. 29 fax in which Norcross asked state Environmental Protection Commissioner Bradley Campbell to ``please review'' a memo describing...