Clinton Corzine

April 2, 2007 - 10:00pm

Clinton picks up Corzine, other key endorsements

Everyone at the top of the massive, Lincoln Memorial-like entrance to City Hall instinctively or self-consciously struck an imperial pose before descending toward the crowd.

Politicians are attentive to power.

Couple that with the race memory of a place like the Parthenon or the Pyramids, and on this day there were over 100 elected officials and ten County chairs testing their best power walks under the Ionic columns of that monumental building in downtown Elizabeth.

With the occasion of Gov. Jon Corzine endorsing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for President still 15 minutes away, the warm-up act was finally prodded as a single unit, the New Jersey Democratic Party power structure, down the stairs, compressed into two cellphone-chattering phalanxes, one on either side of the podium at the bottom. 

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