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South Jersey power broker is stepping out from shadows
George E. Norcross III gazed out from the 10th-floor boardroom of Cooper University Hospital and pointed to where he could see the future.
The hospital chairman and longtime South Jersey Democratic boss motioned to where his hospital will install new brick sidewalks and street lamps, then to where a $100 million cancer center is expected to be under construction this year. Norcross shook his head dismissively at the Camden police station across the street. A regional police force, with his political backing, soon will likely replace the city police.
Up on Cooper’s helicopter pad moments later, Norcross surveyed the city from the other side of the building. Dressed in a black wool coat, he looked like a lord surveying his domain. (Method, Gannett)