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Democrats countering 2012 Republican hopefuls' 'Extreme Aims ...

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz also will be in Iowa to speak at the Iowa State fair soapbox and meet with Democratic activists and supporters of President Barack Obama at the Iowa Democratic Party’s booth at the fair.

Ahead of that, the Iowa Democratic Party is planning a series of round-table discussions on the disastrous GOP agenda. Discussions are planned in Davenport today, Cedar Rapids Aug. 9, Sioux City Aug. 10 and Des Moines Aug. 12.

“GOP candidates are touting their support for disastrous policies like the Ryan Plan or Cut, Cap & Balance which would slash Social Security and end Medicare as we know it while protecting tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires,” according to a spokeswoman for the state party.

Also, Obama will be visiting Iowa following the straw poll, traveling to northeast Iowa Aug. 16 to participate in a rural economic forum. The event at the Northeast Iowa Community College in Peosta will be part of a three-day Midwest bus tour that will focus on economic issues, according to the White House.

This week, however, the DNC will be highlighting what it calls the GOP candidates’ “extreme aims to please the far-right, Tea Party wing of their party and they are following the extreme agenda of congressional Republicans instead of leading – all while the country’s future hangs in the balance.”

To counter the attention the straw poll will give the GOP 2012 hopefuls, the DNC will have a presence on the ground in Iowa beginning on Aug. 11 – the same day as the Republican Party of Iowa/Fox News debate at Iowa State University — which will include DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse and Wasserman Schultz, who will arrive Aug. 12, as well as other surrogates.

In addition to her state fair visit, Wasserman Schultz will participate in a round-table discussion with Iowans the morning of Aug. 12 in Des Moines. Following her visit to the fair – where it’s rumored she will eat something on a stick — Wasserman Schultz will head to Ames to meet with national and local media.

The message Democrats will be pushing is the “Extreme Aims” of the GOP candidates, such as:

Democratic governance and new technology, technologically mediated innovations in political practice in Western Europe

The Internet and politics, citizens, voters and activists

The Russian democratic party Yabloko, opposition in a managed democracy

Bamboozled, how Americans are being exploited by the lies of the Liberal agenda

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