GOP leader tapped as ambassador (to Singapore)

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002377368_ambassador13m.html

By Alicia Mundy
Seattle Times Washington bureau

There always has been a small collection of "plum" ambassadorships that U.S. presidents of both parties save for their closest friends and reliable contributors: Paris, London, Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Singapore.

Yesterday, President Bush rewarded Patricia Herbold, GOP donor and former chairwoman of the King County Republican Party, with the Singapore slot.

Herbold, of Bellevue, has earned recognition by the Republican National Committee and the White House for her political successes in the Seattle area, and the more than $100,000 she has contributed to the GOP in recent years.

... The Herbolds are both important GOP fund-raisers. Patricia Herbold is one of the founding members of The Club for Growth, a powerful national business coalition that supports changes in Social Security. That group collected more than $20 million for Republicans in 2004.

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[Bozita]

1. a founding member of "The Club for Growth" --- 'nuff said

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2. Maybe he can be the national canary to warn us about avian flu.