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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele will be in Greensboro Monday. If the interwebs are to be believed, he’ll be talking about a new television campaign. From the National Journal’s Hotline On Call blog:

The RNC will launch a new TV ad featuring chairman Michael Steele next week, taking the unusual step of appealing for donations via the airwaves in heavily GOP markets.

The 60-second spots will run in Tulsa; Oklahoma City; Cincinnati; Greensboro, NC; and West Palm Beach, FL. Steele will follow up the ad with personal visits to each market, where he will hold fundraisers.

"Pres. Obama and Nancy Pelosi are experimenting with America. Massive government expansion, government takeovers, redistribution of wealth, and staggering debt to countries like China and the Middle East," Steele says in the ad. "It's wrong, we can't afford it. It threatens our freedom."

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An e-mail from the RNC says Steele will speak at 2 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel on Centreport Drive near the airport.

Update: I've spoken with folks at the RNC who confirm the bulk of the National Journals story. An RNC spokesman described the ad buy as "a six figure buy spread out between the five markets and the ad will play for three weeks."