Some people had resorted to shouting, and others to physical violence; Lee Zeldin, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, sat quietly as his Hamptons audience around him devolved into chaos.
The former congressman was delivering a speech at the Global Breakfast Forum at The Hamptons Synagogue on July 27, in which he emphasized the economic worries of New Yorkers that he contended are causing them to leave en masse for places like Florida. He sat quietly when he was interrupted by protesters from the youth-led climate activist organization Climate Defiance, who shouted as others in the audience resorted to physical violence.
