Actor Judd Nelson, star of the movies "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire," is staging a performance in Portland, Maine, to raise money for his mother's legislative campaign.

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Nelson plans to read letters from Joshua Chamberlain, a Civil War hero from Maine, at the fund-raiser Friday at the home of Secretary of State Bill Diamond in Windham.The actor's mother, Merle Nelson, is a Democrat running for a state Senate seat in southern Maine.

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