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Sen. Barack Obama has Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Sen. Hillary Clinton will likely claim Gov. Jon Corzine. Most of the state’s GOP heavyweights, meanwhile, are lining up behind former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Maybe it’s a sign of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s unimposing stature in New Jersey that when he comes to Newark next week the Democratic Presidential candidate will receive the embrace of a registered Republican, and an embattled ex-municipal zoning board member, both headliner hosts of a $1,000 per-plate fundraising reception in Richardson’s honor.

Edmund “Ned� Brown, a former Asbury Park Zoning Board member, was arrested last May on charges of official misconduct and theft. Brown says the charges against him were dismissed.

Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson will be in New Jersey on Monday, March 26 for a $1,000-per-person fundraiser to benefit his exploratory committee.  The reception, at 27 Mix in Newark, is being hosted by Hopewell Borough Councilman Paul Anzano, a lawyer/lobbyist who raises money for Democratic candidates

Joining New Jersey's two United States Senators on the sidelines of the 2008 presidential campaign is Rotarian-American congressional candidate Paul Stuart Aronsohn.  The former aide to Governor James E.

Former Governor James E. McGreevey, in New Mexico to attend a Human Rights Alliance fundraiser, said that it is "too early in the process" to discuss his endorsement of a 2008 presidential candidate, but praised Governor Bill Richardson as a "progressive voice," according to an Associated Press interview.   

The news here is that McGreevey, who said last September in interviews about his book that he would no longer participate in partisan politics, has not closed the door to becoming involved the the '08 campaign.