LisaRaye On Nicole Murphy Response: “She Might Wanna Come See Me”

LisaRaye McCoy is still dragging Nicole Murphy’s tapered edges, and claiming she had an affair with her ex-husband Michael Misick.

READ MORE: LisaRaye McCoy blasts Nicole Murphy for kissing scandal and says she messed around with her ex-husband too

Murphy flatly denied the claim that she had a fling with a married man when she appeared on The Wendy Williams Show.

However, The Player’s Club actress has thrown down the gauntlet. OK Magazine reports that McCoy said if Murphy has a problem with her her account of an alleged hooked up between she and her ex-Misick (while they were still married), she might want to have a “face-to-face.” McCoy says that the beautiful vixen “might want to come see me.”

“She [Nicole] did this play on words. ‘I did not break up LisaRaye’s marriage.’ It’s like, nope. No. I didn’t say that. I never said that you broke up my marriage, that ain’t what I said. So you know, I’m going to let her play on words on that and she might want to come see me, she might see me and tell me that face-to-face. I would accept that,” LisaRaye, 52, explained Tuesday on The Rickey Smiley Morning Show.

Murphy has been on the defense battling against claims that she’s a hot-mess of a homewrecker after she was caught on camera kissing up on Training Day director Antoine Fuqua who is actively married to actress Lela Rochon.

READ MORE: Nicole Murphy publicly apologizes for controversial kiss with director Antoine Fuqua

When the news broke, McCoy stirred the pot and accused Murphy of trying to take her husband too.

“Gurl @nikimurphy you went after @iamlelarochon husband too? … SMH so wrong … again!” she wrote on Instagram.

Murphy then went on an apology tour after getting blasted online for kissing Fuqua.

“Without going into the entire situation, I want to apologize to my family, and to [Antoine’s wife] Lela [Rochon] and to the Fuqua family for what transpired. It was not my intention to be in this situation. I do not condone women kissing or interacting in anyway inappropriately with a married man. I too was once married and I would never intentionally undermine another woman, despite what has been written,” Murphy, 51, said in a statement.

McCoy’s sister rapper Da Brat who co-hosts the show has also confirmed that she had knowledge Murphy had a thing going with McCoy’ss ex, former chief minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

“Absolutely. When my sister was the First Lady of the Turks and Caicos, absolutely. Absolutely. It was a couple of them hoes that did that,” the rapper said July 24 on Dish Nation about Murphy.

READ MORE: Sexy pics show Nicole Murphy kissing Lela Rochon’s husband and ‘Training Day’ director Antoine Fuqua in Italy

However, on September 24 while on Williams’ show, Murphy denied interfering in McCoy’s marriage to Misick.

“It says I broke up someone’s marriage, which is absolutely false. I never did that,” Murphy said.  “You are talking about when LisaRaye got involved in said you slept with her husband?” Williams asked. “It’s not true,” Murphy replied.

Grio fam, do you think LisaRaye is right to continue to drag Nicole Murphy?

 

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Boxer Patrick Day dies from brain trauma suffered in last week’s fight

Boxer Patrick Day never regained consciousness and died after he was knocked out and suffered a “traumatic” head injury on Saturday during a fight in Chicago.

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On Wednesday, Day’s promotor Lou DiBella released a statement announcing his death.

The statement reads:

“Patrick Day passed away today, October 16, 2019, succumbing to the traumatic brain injury he suffered in his fight this past Saturday, October 12, at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, IL. He was surrounded by his family, close friends and members of his boxing team, including his mentor, friend and trainer Joe Higgins. On behalf of Patrick’s family, team, and those closest to him, we are grateful for the prayers, expressions of support and outpouring of love for Pat that have been so obvious since his injury.”

It’s a sad ending, after Day fought against defending champion Charles Conwell during a USBA super welterweight title bout in Chicago. He was struck with a right hand that stunned him, and then “floored the challenger with a left hook in the 10th round.”

ESPN reports that the 27-year-old Freeport, N.Y., native was hospitalized with a “traumatic brain injury,” according to DiBella Entertainment, his management team. He is also said to have suffered seizures on the way to the facility and had to undergo emergency surgery.

“Patrick’s condition is extremely grave,” Day’s trainer, Joe Higgins, said Sunday. “He is fighting for his life. That’s all we can really say right now.”

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Day was an alternate on the 2012 Olympic team and has a record of 17-4-1 with six victories coming by knockout. Saturday marked only the second time he has ever lost by knockout.

As his opponent, Conwell expressed concern for Day in an interview right after he was taken out of the ring on a stretcher, and elaborated on his feelings in a heartfelt letter he penned to Day and posted on social media.

We send our condolences to his family.

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The NRA remains silent on the murder of Atatiana Jefferson

The National Rifle Association has been tight-lipped in its defense of Atatiana Jefferson, a Black woman who legally owned a gun she used to defend her family in their home when she was shot and killed by a white cop.

READ MORE: Former police officer Aaron Dean, who killed Atatiana Jefferson, out of jail on $200K bond

The NRA is notorious for speaking out in support of legal gun owners and were key players is getting the castle doctrine legislation passed Texas in 2007, which protects people who use deadly force to protect themselves while in their own home, according to The Associated Press.

According to Jefferson’s nephew, his aunt heard noises and grabbed her gun from her purse likely to assess if a prowler was outside. Jefferson was fatally shot and killed by former Fort Worth Texas police officer Aaron Dean, who fired a single shot through her bedroom window.

Jefferson, 28, who legally owned a gun, pointed her weapon “toward the window” and was shot and killed, the nephew said, according to the arrest-warrant affidavit.

The nephew watched as his aunt fell to the ground. She was pronounced dead at 3:05 a.m. on Saturday. Police body cam footage failed to show the officer barking out any commands to announce his presence.

The NRA has remained mum on the high-profile case and Jefferson’s actions as protected under the castle doctrine.

“And where is the NRA?” with Rep. Mac Veasey (D-Texas) tweeted Monday. “Once again they prove to the world that rigorous defense of [the Second Amendment] doesn’t extend to black America.”

The ofcr resigning is not good enough! @tarrantcountyda should file charges now and he should be behind bars! And where is the @NRA? Once again they prove to the world that rigorous defense of 2nd Amd doesn’t extend to black America. Justice4 #AtatianaJefferson https://t.co/fOIVgBDZeG

— Marc Veasey (@MarcVeasey) October 14, 2019

Jefferson’s home is in Veasey’s district.

Interim chief of Fort Worth police Ed Kraus believes it was the homeowner’s right, and defends the decision that ultimately cost Jefferson her life.

“It’s only appropriate that Ms. Jefferson would have a gun,” Kraus said at a news conference Tuesday, the Dallas Morning News reported.

Kraus contends that it “makes sense” that Jefferson was armed.

READ MORE: 5 things to know about police shooting victim Atatiana Jefferson

“When you think there’s someone prowling around in the back at 2:00 a.m. in the morning, you may need to arm yourself. That person could have a gun.”

“We’re homeowners in Texas,” Kraus said. “Most of us, if we thought we had somebody outside our house that shouldn’t be and we had access to a firearm, we would be acting very similarly to how she was acting.”

“It’s only appropriate that Ms. Jefferson would have a gun,” the family’s attorney Lee Merritt said at a news conference.

“When you think there’s someone prowling around in the back at 2 in the morning, you may need to arm yourself. That person could have a gun.”

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Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has died

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, died early Thursday of complications from longstanding health issues, his office said. He was 68.

Cummings was a formidable orator who passionately advocated for the poor in his black-majority district , which encompasses a large portion of Baltimore as well as more well-to-do suburbs.

As chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cummings led multiple investigations of the president’s governmental dealings, including probes in 2019 relating to the president’s family members serving in the White House.

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Cummings was a formidable orator who passionately advocated for the poor in his black-majority district , which encompasses a large portion of Baltimore as well as more well-to-do suburbs.

As chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cummings led multiple investigations of the president’s governmental dealings, including probes in 2019 relating to the president’s family members serving in the White House.

Trump responded by criticizing the Democrat’s district as a “rodent-infested mess” where “no human being would want to live.” The comments came weeks after Trump drew bipartisan condemnation following his calls for Democratic congresswomen of color to get out of the U.S. “right now,” and go back to their “broken and crime-infested countries.”

Cummings replied that government officials must stop making “hateful, incendiary comments” that only serve to divide and distract the nation from its real problems, including mass shootings and white supremacy.

READ MORE: Congressman Elijah Cummings’ Baltimore home burglarized the same day Trump launched verbal attacks

“Those in the highest levels of the government must stop invoking fear, using racist language and encouraging reprehensible behavior,” Cummings said in a speech at the National Press Club.

Cummings’ long career spanned decades in Maryland politics. He rose through the ranks of the Maryland House of Delegates before winning his congressional seat in a special election in 1996 to replace former Rep. Kweisi Mfume, who left the seat to lead the NAACP.

Cummings was an early supporter of Barack Obama’s presidential bid in 2008. By 2016, Cummings was the senior Democrat on the House Benghazi Committee, which he said was “nothing more than a taxpayer-funded effort to bring harm to Hillary Clinton’s campaign” for president.

Throughout his career, Cummings used his fiery voice to highlight the struggles and needs

of inner-city residents. He was a firm believer in some much-debated approaches to help the poor and addicted, such as needle exchange programs as a way to reduce the spread of AIDS.

A key figure in the Trump impeachment inquiry , Cummings had been hoping to return to Congress after a medical procedure he said would only keep him away for a week. His statement then didn’t detail the procedure. He had previously been treated for heart and knee issues.

READ MORE: Cummings’ supporters post pics of poverty-stricken GOP-run districts in response to Trump

His constituents began mourning shortly after his death at 2:45 a.m. Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

In a statement, his widow, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, chairwoman of Maryland’s Democratic Party, said “Congressman Cummings was an honorable man who proudly served his district and the nation with dignity, integrity, compassion and humility. He worked until his last breath because he believed our democracy was the highest and best expression of our collective humanity and that our nation’s diversity was our promise, not our problem.”

Cummings was born Jan. 18, 1951. In grade school, a counselor told Cummings he was too slow to learn and spoke poorly, and he would never fulfill his dream of becoming a lawyer.

“I was devastated,” Cummings told The Associated Press in 1996, shortly before he won his seat in Congress. “My whole life changed. I became very determined.”

It steeled Cummings to prove that counselor wrong. He became not only a lawyer, but one of the most powerful orators in the statehouse, where he entered office in 1983. He rose to become the first black House speaker pro tem. He would begin his comments slowly, developing his theme and raising the emotional heat until it became like a sermon from the pulpit.

Cummings was quick to note the differences between Congress and the Maryland General Assembly, which has long been controlled by Democrats.

“After coming from the state where, basically, you had a lot of people working together, it’s clear that the lines are drawn here,” Cummings said about a month after entering office in Washington in 1996.

Cummings chaired the Congressional Black Caucus from 2003 to 2004, employing a hard-charging, explore-every-option style to put the group in the national spotlight.

He cruised to big victories in the overwhelmingly Democratic district, which had given Maryland its first black congressman in 1970 when Parren Mitchell was elected.

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Three North Carolina women charged with running an elderly fight club

We’ve heard of dog fight clubs and even cockfighting between roosters, but now three North Carolina women are accused of forcing senior citizens with dementia to come to blows.

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Marilyn McKey, 32, Tonacia Tyson ,20, and Taneshia Jordan, 26, are charged with running an elderly fight club and pitting the senile residents against each other for a bout of fisticuffs at the Danby House in Winston-Salem, NBC News reported.

In June the three suspects, who were part of the nursing staff, showcased the fights on social media they allegedly organized. The Winston-Salem police and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are investigating.

One fight resulted “in one resident being strangled with her face turning red … while staff recorded and shared the video through social media,” a state Division of Health Service Regulation report found.

One of the three organizers even egged on a resident who was fighting by ordering her to beat another contender, telling her to “punch her in the face,” the state report said, which cites video of the incident.

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In a video, one of the elderly women falls on a bed and yells out, “Let go, help me, help me, let go,” while another woman keeps hitting her, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.

“Are you recording?” a staff member asks on the video. “You gonna send it to me?” the report said.

The women themselves are also accused of getting physical with elderly residents, according to the report.

On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Danby House, confirmed that the three women have been fired.

“Danby House has a zero-tolerance policy for the mistreatment of those in our care,” the facility said in a statement.

READ MORE: VIDEO: Heartless daycare workers forced toddlers to fight until they cry

“Administrators have been working closely with the Winston-Salem Police Department throughout its investigation to ensure justice is served. Additional staff training and a more rigorous vetting process for all new and existing employees at Danby House has been implemented.”

Danby House has been prohibited from accepted new patients, thanks to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, the Winston-Salem Journal reported.

The suspects, McKey, Tyson and Jordan are slated to appear in court Nov. 14.

Let’s see how they do defending against other inmates while in jail.

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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren stockpile millions more than 2020 rivals

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren don’t just lead the Democratic presidential primary in fundraising. They’ve stockpiled millions more than their rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden, who burned through money at a fast clip over the past three months while posting an anemic fundraising haul.

Sanders held $33.7 million cash on hand on his third-quarter fundraising report. Warren had $25.7 million during the same period, while South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg came next $23.3 million.

Biden, meanwhile, held just $8.9 million, a small fraction of what his leading rivals have at their disposal.

With the first votes of the Democratic contest just months away, the candidates are entering a critical and expensive period when having an ample supply of cash can make or break a campaign. Biden’s total raises questions about his durability as a front-runner.
“Can he do better at fundraising? Absolutely. And I think he will,” said Biden donor and fundraiser Steve Westly.

While many contenders in the crowded field will be triaging resources and making difficult spending decisions in the coming months, the advantage enjoyed by the Vermont and Massachusetts senators means they will have the luxury of spending when and where they want. That will allow them to buy large amounts of advertising, respond to attacks and boost their ground games in early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

“If you are sitting at fourth, fifth or even seventh place and you don’t have the money to have a real paid media campaign, the future for you is probably pretty bleak. You will get drowned out by the rest of the noise,” said Grant Woodard, a Des Moines attorney who is a veteran of John Kerry’s and Hillary Clinton’s Iowa campaigns. “It’s still a fluid race. But to be competitive in this thing you are going to have to be on TV, digital and you are going to have to be on direct mail. The fundamentals still matter.”

Biden has built a formidable campaign, but it’s come at a cost. The $17.6 million he spent over the past three months was more than the $15.7 million he took in, according to his fundraising figures that were submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday’s reporting deadline.

Despite his lackluster totals, he still remains a favored candidate in recent public opinion polls, along with Warren. And in recent weeks, both Biden and his wife, Jill, have kept up a busier fundraising schedule.

“People focused on the minutia and the details,” said Westly, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. “The reality is this is quickly boiling down to a two-person race — and that’s between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.”

Still, Biden is not alone in the sprawling field.

California Sen. Kamala Harris had $10.5 million cash on hand but deferred paying consultants including her pollster nearly $1 million, records show. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker held $4.2 million, disclosures show.

And the situation was far more dismal for others. Former Obama housing secretary Julián Castro had just $672,000 cash on hand, while Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan had even less, $158,000, records show.

The advantage Warren and Sanders have was evident in the way they have been able to spend.

Sanders’ $21.5 million in spending between July and the end of September topped the list. It enabled him to spend $3.8 million on advertising and online fundraising, drop nearly $1 million on campaign merchandise and pay his staff a combined $5.6 million, records show.
Warren’s $18.6 million in spending during that period allowed her to fund a sprawling staff operation that includes well over 500 people on the payroll, in addition to financing a more than $3.2 million digital operation, records show.

Buttigieg, too, has hired roughly 100 staffers in Iowa, where his campaign is betting on a strong performance.

But just because they have a massive cash advantage doesn’t mean the other candidates are doomed. Even though time is running out, candidates could still see their financial picture improve, particularly if they have a viral online moment to boost their online fundraising.

“The question is: Do you have enough money to run a strong campaign? North of $5 million and you have the ability to get through the fourth quarter,” said Democratic donor and Wall Street financier Robert Wolf, who was an economic adviser to Barack Obama.

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