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Former Bush Press Aide to Speak at Aurora University
9/24/2009
AURORA, Ill. — Pete Seat, deputy assistant press secretary to President George W. Bush, will speak at Aurora University at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 28.
Seat will discuss his White House service and current politics in the University Banquet Hall in Alumni Hall at 1410 Marseillaise Place in Aurora.
The public is invited. Admission is free. The sponsor is the AU Political Science Club.
Seat currently writes a biweekly guest column for The Times of Northwest Indiana in addition to web only columns found on www.peteseat.com.
He has also published op-eds in the Indianapolis Star and the Arizona Daily Star and his travel diaries have appeared in the Tucson Citizen (from the 2004 Republican National Convention) and The Times of NW Indiana (from international trips with President George W. Bush).
Seat has also appeared on Fox News Channel and MSNBC as a political commentator discussing news of the day.
During three-and-a-half years on the White House staff, Seat spent time in both the Office of Appointments and Scheduling and the Office of the Press Secretary working for Tony Snow and Dana Perino. Seat's portfolio included work as a White House spokesman and self-described zookeeper — organizing the White House Press Corps during their many travels.
Seat traveled to 23 countries on five continents with President Bush, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Japan; and more than a dozen states, including many visits to the President's Crawford, Texas, ranch.
Prior to his White House service, Seat was the state chairman of the Arizona College Republicans during the 2004 election cycle, and the president of the University of Arizona College Republicans chapter during the 2003 mayoral and city council elections in Tucson.
Seat has a bachelor's degree in theatre arts from the University of Arizona and is a native of Schererville, Ind.
