Norcross' New Role as Newspaper Owner Has Some Worried

Earlier this year, Trenton-based Republican consultant Rich Ambrosino's phone started ringing off the hook.

It had just become public that one of New Jersey's most powerful political figures, George E. Norcross III, was part of an investor group looking to buy Philadelphia Media Network, the parent company of The Inquirer, and other politicians were worried, Ambrosino said.