Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, traveled to Seattle yesterday to promote plans to start organizing now for the 2008 election — and to continue his pointed criticism of Republican leaders. In a talk to about 100 people at a fund-raiser organized by the party's Women's Leadership Forum, Dean didn't repeat biting remarks recently criticized by fellow Democrats John Edwards, the party's vice-presidential nominee last year, and Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware. Both have said they disagreed with his statement that a lot of Republicans "have never made an honest living in their lives." "He doesn't speak for me...
