Gov. Christie, Sen. Sweeney break ground on cancer center at Camden hospital

By Megan DeMarco/Statehouse Bureau.

TRENTON — It made for an impressive tableau: Three of the most powerful politicians in New Jersey united today for a groundbreaking in Camden, just miles from the Rutgers campus that is the focus of a controversial takeover championed by the same three men.

Gov. Chris Christie, Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester) and George Norcross, chairman of Cooper University Hospital, all wielded ceremonial shovels for the start of a four-story cancer center for Cooper that is scheduled to open in the fall of 2013.

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