As Sarah reported, Lee Perlman will not be prosecuted by the district attorney’s office, and so has respectfully declined your donations to help with his bail/legal bills. Generous Mercury readers raised $396 (which would have been matched dollar for dollar by the Mercury), and that money is being returned to the donors as we speak. However! While our monetary help may have been unnecessary, I’m still thinking of making this T-shirt to sell at flea markets.

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Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)

3 replies on “Thanks for Your Help!”

  1. You actually got people to fork over $400 of their own dollars for this? Wow.

    Glad he’s free, Merc. Not since the Dred Scott decision has there been such a tremendous miscarraige of justice in this country.

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