Some useful links

Here's a quick overview of this weekend's convention events.

First, here's a link from the RPW site on the convention.

The convention events are split between the La Crosse Center and the Radisson Hotel.

The convention begins Friday afternoon with some training seminars before RNC Chair Michael Steele speaks to the Chairman's Welcome Reception in the Radisson Ballroom.

A series of Republicans are scheduled to speak Saturday morning at the La Crosse Center, including:

-RPW Chairman Reince Priebus
-College Republican Chair Lora Rae Anderson
-RNC Committeewoman Mary Buestrin
-RNC Committeeman Steve King
-Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen
-Assembly GOP Leader Jeff Fitzgerald
-Senate GOP Leader Scott Fitzgerald
-Congressman Paul Ryan
-Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner
-Milwaukee County Executive and official GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker

There are more seminars and training sessions Saturday afternoon before conservative talk show host Jason Lewis addresses the County Chairman's Banquet Saturday evening in the La Crosse Center Ballroom.

The hospitality suites kick off Saturday night in the Radisson, and the convention will be back in the Radisson Sunday morning for a prayer breakfast with Van Hollen and Ryan before a media round table featuring WTMJ's Charlie Sykes, WISN/WIBA's Vicki McKenna, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Patrick McIhleran and Boots and Sabers' Owen Robinson.

Here's the media advisory laying out the schedule.

In addition to the Radisson, attendees will also be staying at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites as well as the Brookstone Inn

-- By WisPolitics Staff