There is more than silence. When McKinney's district was redrawn, a section of her district that is heavily Jewish was cut out and put into John Lewis' district.
Both houses are controlled by Democrats. The Governor is a Democrat. The redistircting was totaly controlled by Democrats.
By cutting out this Jewish section, not only did the Democrats ackowlege that McKinney they knew about McKinney's anti-semitism, they show they approved of it by redrawing her district so she wouldn't have to worry about any "Jewish problem".
They also shot themselves in the foot. My husband and I were two of thousands of Republicans that were gerrymandered into the new 4th District, while trying to exclude the "Jewish vote." We assisted in the grassroots telephone campaign to spread the word to fellow Republicans that they had a recourse. It worked.
We are proud to be two of the thousands who crossed party lines to vote Jihad Cindy out.
The way I understand it, the community association in the Toco Hills/Morningside area went to their reps in the state house and ASKED to be redrawn out of Jihad Cynthia's district, in order to make sure they had a representative that would at least listen to them when they called Washington.
McKinney's staffers knew flat out that if they weren't from south DeKalb (read, if they were'nt black), to ignore anything they had to say or ask.