Editing Patty Murray (section)

==Personal life==
Murray is married to Rob Murray and has two grown children: Sara and Randy. She lives on [[Whidbey Island]].<ref name=Murray2016>{{cite news|last=Brunner |first=Jim |title=Patty Murray to seek fifth Senate term in 2016 |url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/patty-murray-to-seek-fifth-senate-term-in-2016/ |access-date=October 17, 2015 |newspaper=The Seattle Times |date=February 9, 2014}}</ref>

On August 2, 2006, ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that in 1994, Senator [[Strom Thurmond]] of [[South Carolina]] attempted to [[Sexual assault|grope]] his then-freshman colleague Patty Murray of Washington. ''The Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' reported that Murray asked for, and received, an apology. Through a spokeswoman, Murray declined to comment further on the incident.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/02/04/sen-thurmonds-mixed-race-daughter-dies-at-87/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208015518/http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/02/04/sen-thurmonds-mixed-race-daughter-dies-at-87/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-08 |title=Sen. Thurmond's mixed race daughter dies at 87 |work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] |first=Joel|last=Connelly |date=February 4, 2013 |access-date=April 24, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Book Says Thurmond Groped Murray Washington Senator Won't Talk About Elevator Incident|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/nov/08/book-says-thurmond-groped-murray-washington/}}</ref>