WASHINGTON – Downtown hotels will be hard to come by when the Republican National Convention kicks off in Milwaukee in just over two months.
But members of Wisconsin’s convention delegation have secured their rooms.
The state’s delegation will stay at the Hampton Inn & Suites just half a mile from Fiserv Forum, the epicenter of the July 15-18 convention , after many other members were originally slated to stay at a hotel in Racine, a Republican Party of Wisconsin spokesman told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this week.
Exactly why the delegation was moved from Racine to the downtown Milwaukee hotel was not entirely clear. But a spokeswoman for the convention on Tuesday night said the state’s delegation had initially booked space in both hotels.
A March 27 email from convention officials to top Wisconsin Republicans obtained by the Journal Sentinel showed the state’s delegation had 63 rooms booked at the Delta Hotel by Marriott in Racine and dozens more rooms in the Hampton Inn & Suites in downtown Milwaukee.