TSU lawmaker Su Ying-kwei (蘇盈貴) yesterday filed a suit for slander against Kaohsiung Mayor Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) of the DPP in the wake of accusations by Hsieh that Su is corrupt.
The quarrel between the two pan-green politicians is said to have harmed the cooperation of the allied parties.
The quarrel started just after Christmas when Su, Kaohsiung lawmaker, accused Hsieh of accepting bribes from Yuan Heng Temple (元亨寺) and Yu Huang Temple (玉皇宮). Su's allegations happened as investigations were under way into the vote-buying scandal surrounding the election of the Kaohsiung City Council speaker.
Hsieh responded by saying that Su's accusations were motivated by nothing but malice after Su failed to be appointed by the city as a legal advisor for Kaohsiung's MRT construction project.
Su, however, claimed he never tried to get the post. He vowed to quit his position as a lawmaker if it was proven that he sought the position.
The lawmaker had accused Hsieh earlier of taking NT$2.8 million from Yu Yuang Temple and NT$10 million from Yuan Heng Temple in exchange for the mayor's approval of illegal construction at the temples.
Su said yesterday that he had heard from a DPP lawmaker that Hsieh had accepted another NT$7 million from Yuan Heng Temple.
Su said these sums of money were not "political donations," as Hsieh has claimed, but rather "political blackmail."
Hsieh said yesterday that he would not respond until Su apologizes for his past groundless accusations.
Hsieh said that Su had made a practice of tossing out accusations later proven groundless for which he has never been called to account.
Hsieh added that records show that the NT$10 million from Yuan Heng Temple was in fact a donations for disaster relief in the wake of the Sept. 21, 1999, earthquake.
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