WASHINGTON -- While most of the nation was stooped in silence Thursday morning to commemorate the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Sen. Patty Murray was holding a $1,000-a-plate fund-raising breakfast in the nation's Capitol. The event, which raised $10,000 for Murray's campaign against George Nethercutt, was denounced by Republicans as tawdry. Even some Democrats privately questioned the wisdom of holding a fund-raiser on what is still a mournful day. "I think this says a great deal about Senator Murray's judgment and priorities," Washington state Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance said. A senior Republican strategist in Washington, D.C., expressed...
