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DPP accuses KMT's Kaohsiung candidate

Democratic Progressive Party members yesterday launched attacks on Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Huang Chun-ying (黃俊英) questioning his integrity.

DPP City Councilor Chou Wei-yu (周威佑) told a press conference that Cheng Ching-shui (鄭清水), a staffer in charge of Yancheng District in Kaohsiung City for the Huang campaign, had filed false reports to collect compensation for typhoon damage from the Taipei City Government.

"The city government had compensated over NT$10 million (US$308,928) to Cheng for the loss of medical equipment caused by a typhoon, in exchange for his support for Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) when he was running for chairmanship of his party," Chou said, without providing any evidence.

Chou added that the medical equipment was actually not owned by Cheng, noting that Ma should apologize for dereliction of duty in reviewing the reports Cheng filed to claim compensation.

An unidentified man who attended the press conference said that the medical equipment was owned by his former tenant, and that he felt it was unfair that Cheng gained such a huge amount of compensation.

Apollo Chen (陳學聖), Huang's spokesman, denied the accusation against Cheng, saying that there was no irregularities in his compensation claim.

"Cheng told us that he had enough photos and documents to prove his innocence," Chen said.

Late yesterday, DPP Legislator Lin Shu-fen (林淑芬) told a press conference that Huang's remarks that he had quit his teaching post at I Shou University was a lie.

"Huang told the public that he has already quit his teaching post, but he didn't. He has kept the position so that he can go back to school if he loses the election," Lin said.

"Lying to the public is an unacceptable moral defect. He made the lie five years ago when he was running for mayor. Now he did it again," Lin said.

Lin also accused Huang's camp of sending numerous e-mails to students and teachers of I Shou University canvassing voters for Huang, which she said was in violation of related regulations.

In response, Chen said that Huang had quit the position of vice president of the university.

"Although he keeps the teaching position, he didn't get paid during the campaign," Chen said.
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