General Jul 29, 2015 at 4:20 pm

Our Picks from the Mercury's "Worst Person in Portland" Essay Contest!

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1
A few of these (especially Bad PDX Mama's) seem to be written in the first-person about someone the writer has the misfortune of knowing. Which I find comforting, so carry on.
2
How did Bad PDX Mama not win? Oh yeah, she isn't a white guy.
3
If I had known that complete lies would win, I would have submitted some of my own.
4
Bad Mama sounds totally made up. The stress on "lying to children" is just to sound terrible, when in reality it's not, who doesn't lie to children??
5
The winner may or may not have been a woman, but definitely the most fucked up person... towards a woman and her soon be born child.
6
I disagree. The winner was compelled with threats to do something awful. Cowardice isn't malice, and truly awful people are malicious. The worst people were his or her superiors who ordered the girl's termination to begin with.
7
None as bad as that guy that wrote about his apartment. Or, hell, ANY Californian who has moved here the past 5 years.
8
That landlord is awesome
9
Your "winner" is by far the best person on your list in my book. Bad PDX Mama is the worst, and the meat-eating environmentalist is the dumbest.
10
I'm entering next year. I'll win😜
11
It sounds like the first essay that was written, was from either GameStop or Walmart. I'm leaning towards GameStop. They have a truly horrible corporate culture there! "shivers"
12
very disappointing no one wrote about the mayor
13
Anyone figure out locations of those apartment buildings?
14
Just set the whole Pearl District on fire already.
15
I'm assuming the editors of this paper were ineligible due to a conflict of interest?
16
Technically the landlord probably isn't doing anything wrong, you have to discriminate based on someone's identity in a protected class. Unless of course you filled a building with wealthy young white guys with blond hair that were taller than six feet.
17
All the winning essays where written by the same fucking person. I guess that lying and cheating on contests make them a strong candidate for worst person. Dumb contest.

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