By Bob Braun/Star-Ledger Columnist Saed Hindash/The Star-LedgerSouth Jersey political boss George Norcross is pictured in this file photo.
Even for a laconic personality like George Norcross, the message was cryptic. Simply the letters “FYI” attached to an e-mail statement written by someone else. Norcross has declined to elaborate, but it was clear the South Jersey political boss was endorsing some or all of the message from Wendell Pritchett, the chancellor of the Camden campus of Rutgers University.
Pritchett opposes the plan, pushed by both Norcross, a Democrat, and Republican Gov. Chris Christie, to allow Rowan University, a former state teachers’ college now saddled with a very expensive medical school, to swallow the Camden assets of what has been New Jersey’s only real state university — Rutgers.
