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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP urges Secret Service to move protesters from park near convention arena
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/26/republican-national-convention-protests-milwaukee/https://archive.ph/vuMGf
GOP urges Secret Service to move protesters from park near convention arena
By Josh Dawsey
Published April 26, 2024 at 5:29 p.m. EDT
The Republican Party is urging the Secret Service to move protesters farther away from the arena in Milwaukee where the party will hold its convention in July, according to a letter sent to the agency Friday and reviewed by The Washington Post.
Milwaukees plan to host protesters in a one-block city park about a quarter-mile from the arena is dangerous because thousands of convention attendees will be forced to walk by the park en route to the festivities, a lawyer for the Republican Party wrote in the letter. The park is situated between two main streets that the Republican National Committee says convention attendees will use to get to the venue.
Instead, the GOP wants the Secret Service to include the area called Pere Marquette Park in its security perimeter, which would force the city to choose a different area for its First Amendment Zone. Pere Marquette is the closest large park to the arena. The RNC has proposed another park by City Hall across the river from the arena, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.
In the letter, [Todd] Steggerda wrote that the RNC asked low-level Secret Service officials to change the plan, but this critical shortcoming has not been addressed. By sending the letter, the RNC is escalating the dispute to the director of the Secret Service and demanding a meeting to discuss the issue.
A spokesman for the Secret Service said the agency has not yet received the letter, but that decisions about protest locations and convention security are made by a steering committee of local authorities and federal partners who know the host communities best.
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GOP urges Secret Service to move protesters from park near convention arena (Original Post)
dalton99a
Apr 2024
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Let them pay fir their own security. It's not much more than 50/50 that TFG will even be there himself.
marble falls
Apr 2024
#1
OK. I'll bite. What ever do you mean by projecting the disorganization of the GOP on DNP?
marble falls
Apr 2024
#4
marble falls
(60,386 posts)1. Let them pay fir their own security. It's not much more than 50/50 that TFG will even be there himself.
jimfields33
(18,064 posts)3. I actually hoping the Democratic Party has a plan for our convention
Id think both would do this.
marble falls
(60,386 posts)4. OK. I'll bite. What ever do you mean by projecting the disorganization of the GOP on DNP?
former9thward
(33,151 posts)5. The city of Chicago has denied permits to protestors.
No permits, no spaces. How do you think that will work out?
Buns_of_Fire
(17,698 posts)2. Nazipublican conventioneers don't want to run the gauntlet.
The only surprise here is that they didn't demand an alternate "free speech zone" somewhere in the vicinity of Pittsburgh.
former9thward
(33,151 posts)6. The DNC is doing the same thing in Chicago.