Taipei Times
Date: Nov 01, 2018
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je’s (柯文哲) election campaign office yesterday announced members
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je, left, laughs yesterday as his mayoral election campaign manager Lee Yuan, who writes under the pen name Hsiao Yeh, talks to reporters at his campaign office in Taipei. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
of its financial supervisory committee and its campaign expenditures so far as Ko urged other mayoral candidates to follow suit.
Ko asked for a two-hour leave from Taipei City Council to attend a news conference at the office, saying that his campaign expenditures for the 2014 election were publicized by then-campaign office director and political commentator Yao Li-ming (姚立明).
As Yao in March questioned his previous campaign spending, Ko said he decided to hold an open audition and establish a financial supervisory committee to monitor his spending this year.
Office spokesman Lin Hsiao-chi (林筱淇) said four of the total seven committee members were recruited through interviews and three were appointed by Ko, adding that the committee aims to make the expenditures more transparent. [FULL STORY]
