The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday announced that Dec. 10 would be “homecoming day” for tens of thousands of piggy banks in the party’s much-publicized “three little pigs” fundraising campaign.
Supporters of the DPP will be able to return the piggy banks the party has distributed nationwide to the campaign headquarters in every county and city across the nation, DPP spokesperson Lin Chun-hsien (林俊憲) told a press conference.
Everyone who returns a piggy bank to the DPP will receive a campaign scarf as a souvenir, Lin said.
Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times
The scarves, with the logo of a cartoon pig’s head, will be available in four colors: pink, yellow, green and gray.
The DPP launched the campaign as a countermeasure after the Control Yuan said last month that it would launch an investigation into the party’s acceptance of three piggy banks donated by children on Oct. 9, because the Political Donations Act (政治獻金法) stipulates that only those eligible to vote are allowed to make political donations.
Since then, the party had placed more orders for piggy banks and distributed them nationwide, Lin said, adding that more than 200,000 had been handed out, but that was still not enough to meet the demand.
Supporters knew very well how to improvise, Lin said, as the piggy banks that had been returned to the DPP campaign offices came in all shapes and sizes.
“Some people simply punched a hole in any iron box they could find and put coins in,” he said.
Supporters can also return their piggy banks to the presidential campaign headquarters of DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) or any DPP legislative candidate any day after Dec. 10, party spokesperson Kang Yu-cheng (康裕成) said.
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