July 02, 2007 @ 1:21 pm

THE BEAT: Barack's Green Lead, Foxy Brown, more

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Senator Barack Obama has reportedly raised a record $32.5 million for his campaign, making him the most caked up Democratic candidate. According to the Associated Press, Hillary Clinton, currently only has roughly $27 million, which gives Obama a nice little "money talks" cushion coming into the 2008 election. An arrest warrant has been issued for Timothy Collier, 33, the man accused of ordering Foxy Brown's beat down on June 23 in Brooklyn. Though Foxy adamantly denied she wasn't the one who was jumped by three women - supposedly sic'd on her by her ex-lover, who she accused of being a pimp - the police had no qualms about issuing a warrant for the man's arrest on June 6. According to The New York Daily News, Collier missed several meetings with his parole officer since he was released from prison for a prior drug conviction. Actor Isaiah Washington has accused "racism" as the motive behind him getting the boot from the show Grey’s Anatomy. Washington was accused of using a homophobic slur while on the set of Anatomy, causing his firing, but now the actor claims in a recent issue of Newsweek, ". . . someone heard the booming voice of a black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me. . . I apologized and showed my remorse for what I said and for the pain I caused anyone. If a black man can’t get forgiveness in this country, when so many other people like Robert Downey Jr. and the governor of California get second and third chances … I think that says a lot about race and this country where we stand."

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