In the previous post, I pointed out “public service” flag (and definitely not a campaign flag) in New Taipei City. Today I saw another one in Taipei City:
This one is even more blatant. There is a musical concert for charity sponsored by KMT city council member Chueh Mei-sha’s 闕枚莎 support organization. This justifies the left banner which screams out, “Mei-sha has love.” They’re even offering a bribe to attendees: 500 free reusable tote bags. This clearly is a public service flag and has nothing to do with the election coming up in a couple of weeks.
But wait, there’s more. What if you are not a member of the mayor’s party? Can you still use this ruse? Not a chance. When DPP candidate Luo Wen-chung 羅文崇 from Yonghe District in New Taipei City tried to advertise his charity 3-on-3 basketball tournament, his application was summarily denied to prevent any electioneering. Take a look at his flag and see if you think it is any more blatant that Chueh Mei-sha’s or Liao Cheng-liang’s 廖正良.
Edit: To be fair, the article says that all four incumbent city council members in Yonghe have these public service announcement flags scattered around the city. Three incumbents are KMT members, but the fourth is a DPP member. So it might be that incumbents, not ruling party members, get special favors. That’s not much of an improvement.
Frozen Garlic 
October 26, 2014 at 12:11 am |
Seen tonight in Muzha area, a poster for a DPP member surnamed Li with the caption, “值得信任.” The poster mentioned Da’an-Wenshan, do you know if there’s a candidate called Li standing there?
October 26, 2014 at 11:56 pm |
I think you are talking about Lee Ching-feng 李慶鋒, an incumbent DPP candidate. I took a picture of his ad with that slogan the other day. I think he is generally considered part of the Chen Shui-bian faction of the party.
October 27, 2014 at 1:22 am
That’s the chap. Strangely, I saw the same poster twice today in Jingmei. His team cover a lot of ground…