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• Anonymous

  May 15, 2011 at 5:52 pm

  

  A little about Chen Li-Zhen (陳麗貞）, whom I know personally. She ran for mayor of Jia-yi in this past election and didn't lose by much. There were several factors for her loss, even though she was the incumbent mayor:1) She's an extremely honest and hard working, pulling a good chunk of change for Jia-yi out of the national government to build their city hall. Before her terms as mayor and deputy mayor, she was a lifer in civil service, a string of promotions putting her near the top level civil servants can rise to. However, her personal characteristics unfortunately are not an ideal combination for campaigning.2) No one outside the KMT really knows where all that old, stolen KMT money is. But in the case of this election, the DPP was outspent by the KMT by a factor of 6 to 1. One-third was Legislator Huang's family's own money, but taking that away, that's still an advantage of 4 to 1. If you were in the city a few months before the election, KMT posters were plastered everywhere, with DPP posters going up much later, and even then, in smaller number.3) She was accused of carpet-bagging, as she followed her old boss (an old Health Department chief that was native to Jia-yi) down to Jia-yi. Additionally, because CSB replaced her old boss after having given her position as Minister of the Interior (she vacated the mayoral position to take it, leaving it to Chen Li-zhen), her old boss became very grumpy about the DPP, not supporting her old protege Chen Li-zhen, and in the last days, purposefully going on TV saying she wasn't going to support her.So can the DPP eek out a hail Mary, despite their run of bad luck?The best thing Chen Li-zhen has going for her is she's as clean as they could possibly come, so if it's corruption voters don't like, she's actually the rational choice. Her campaign machine is also already ready to go, and as former mayor, she has very high name recognition around town. As the record shows, she's also pretty good at pulling for national money, which is an important skill to have in a mature democracy (probably not as big a deal to voters as I think it should be). The negatives are obvious–she's already lost once (true, it was to a native daughter legislator who knew how to campaign) and any national drag on the DPP, however a big a deal it was in the local 3-in-1 elections, it can only be an even bigger deal in a national election.Anybody reading this blog around Jia-yi thinking of helping out–you'd be helping an out a hard worker that has nothing even remotely near a case of corruption, but could use some help in the packaging. I'd say the odds are 50-50… let's see what happens.
• The wicked Osama is Dead!

  Jun 12, 2011 at 5:09 pm

  

  Because their Utopia does not welcome healthy kids with strong bones and physical prowess. They much prefer the frail, pasty, anemic with dread locks and the odor of sh*t.
• Mark W

  Jun 27, 2011 at 4:22 pm

  

  They can drink regular milk at school. It won't kill them.
• No Name Needed

  Jul 29, 2011 at 3:25 am

  

  So, just drink regular milk. Problem solved.

  Right?