By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

At least one big-bucks fund-raiser for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton likes the ring of it.

According to the Web site PolickerNJ.com, John F. X. Graham, one of Clinton's national finance co-chairs, shot off an e-mail to Clinton Campaign Manager Terry McAuliffe on Thursday touting New Jersey's junior senator as the "most intriguing" veep pick Clinton could make.

Graham, a New Jersey insurance broker who has also given campaign cash to Menendez, referred to the former House member and Union City mayor, as the "Latino Barack Obama with experience."

Just off the campaign trail, Menendez, a Clinton campaign national co-chair, declined to discuss the possibility yesterday.

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