On the eve of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced she would resign as Democratic National Committee chair at the end of the convention.
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Clyburn also said there were plenty of Sanders supporters working at the DNC who might also have been writing emails with unflattering things to say about the Clinton camp.
A row of police officers stood between the stage and the protesters as the Florida congresswoman, who is up for re-election, finished her speech.
He said there’s a tendency in politics to single out the winning side as having done something nefarious and ignore the losing side, “which might have been doing something worse”.
“So I can see that’s little bit of interest in my being here and I appreciate that interest”, Wasserman Schultz said amid the boos.
But as recently as Saturday, Wasserman Schultz campaigned with Clinton in Florida, speaking at Clinton’s Miami event with her new running mate Sen. She also was scheduled to deliver remarks at the SC delegation breakfast Tuesday morning but did not attend. She did not appear at the convention podium and later watched the proceedings from a private suite. Furious protesters almost drowned out her speech, crowding the stage and screaming, “You’re ruining our democracy!”
“Here we go again with another Clinton scandal, and e-mails yet (can you believe)”.
“We know that the voices in this room that are standing up and being disruptive – we know that that’s not the Florida we know”, she told the crowd. “We shouldn’t be honoring someone who ran such a, we now know, disreputable shop at the DNC”.
Then she left the room, refusing to speak to reporters.
Monday’s meeting followed angry protests by Sanders supporters who already have hit Philadelphia’s streets to oppose Clinton’s nomination. Convention officials said the night’s “United Together” theme will focus on building an economy that works for everyone, “not just those at the top” – one of the mantras of Sanders’ campaign.
But Sanders also was heckled and booed when he said voting for Clinton is key to defeating Donald Trump.
Wasserman Schultz has been forced into a low profile at the convention she helped organize, no longer even given the privilege of gaveling it in and out of session. “It’s sad that this is what’s become of Wasserman Schultz’s career”.
“That’s just not who we are and should not be tolerated”, said Miner.
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“It kind of all reaffirms in the minds of Bernie delegates that we were given a raw deal, that we are dealing with a rigged system, that the primary was very much rigged from the very beginning in favor of Mrs. Clinton”, said Karen Bernal, one of the leaders of the California Sanders delegation, during a morning news conference.
