New Jersey Democratic chairman Joe Cryan this morning pledged "absolute" support for U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's campaign, which late yesterday severed ties with a top campaign fund-raiser who was overheard in a taped telephone conversation repeatedly asking a Hudson County vendor to make a hire as "a favor" to Menendez. "I can absolutely unequivocally assure you we are working harder to get him elected," said Cryan in a telephone interview from a dentist's chair. "This is nothing we didn't expect. We're going to win this thing." Menendez is in a close race with Republican state Sen. Tom Kean, who has...