Debbie Wasserman Schultz jeered at DNC delegation event

PHILADELPHIA — Members of the audience at a Florida delegation event Monday morning loudly jeered Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the Democratic National Convention kicks off, indicating the controversy over the recent Democratic National Committee email leak is not going away anytime soon.

Some cheers for the Florida congresswoman were interspersed with the heckling. A sign for Sen. Bernard Sanders was visible in the crowd, as was one reading “emails.”

Ms. Wasserman Schultz said she could see “there’s a little bit of interest” in her being there.

“I appreciate that interest, and a little bit of interest from the press,” she said. “But that really shows you that Florida is the most significant battleground state that [will] make sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States of America.

“We know that the voices in this room that are standing up and being disruptive — we know that that’s not the Florida that we know,” she said. “The Florida that we know is united.”

Ms. Wasserman Schultz said she’s resigning her post as DNC chair at the end of the convention but that she still plans to open and close the proceedings — at which point she could trigger a similar crowd reaction on a much larger scale.

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Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said earlier in the day on MSNBC it would be a mistake to have her open the convention.

But Donna Brazile, who is in line to become the interim chair of the DNC, said on ABC that the Florida congresswoman has put a lot of work into the convention and that she deserves the opportunity to gavel in the proceedings and close them out.

Ms. Wasserman Schultz’s resignation comes after an embarrassing email leak in which DNC staffers were revealed to have openly mused about undermining Mr. Sanders’ campaign in the primary contest against Mrs. Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee.