Lien yesterday drove through the streets of Kaohsiung appealing to voters and visited labor groups. Hsieh has come in for criticism over the city's relatively high unemployment rate.
Starting Tuesday evening, Lien was to campaign in Kaohsiung every day for Huang until the night before election day.
Other high-ranking KMT officials are also stumping for Huang, prompting Lien to call it "an enlarged Central Standing Committee meeting."
But scandal has also dented Huang's campaign.
His camp tried to defuse bad publicity surrounding the rezoning of land approved when he was deputy mayor four years ago.
Huang's spokesman, KMT Legislator Lin Yi-shih (林益世), yesterday condemned Hsieh's allegations regarding the Kaohsiung Ammonium Sulfate Co scandal as a repeat of another lie four years ago.
During the Kaohsiung City mayoral election in 1998, fabricated audio tapes that suggested then KMT mayor Wu Den-yi (吳敦義) had cheated on his wife were believed to have seriously hurt his prospects.
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