Olympia Sonnier is a field producer for NBC News.
Republican officials are running into a wall of opposition — from the Secret Service and local officials — as they fight to move a protest zone farther away from the site of their national convention in Milwaukee this summer. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wrote to Secret Service chief Kim Cheatle this month to warn that preliminary plans could create 'a likely — and preventable — area of conflict between protestors and Convention attendees and delegates.
Some members of Milwaukee’s Common Council said they feel the likely protest zone is adequate and dismissed the desire for changes to its location — by both Republican officials and protest groups. “There’s no appetite to alter any of the decisions we’ve made to date regarding protests zones,” said Alderman Robert Bauman, whose district includes much of downtown Milwaukee, adding that the likely zone was already judged to be “an appropriate balance” of “free speech and security.
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