ITINERARY OUTCRY:DPP spokesman Wang Min-sheng had accused Mo Tien-hu of bailing out on hundreds of workers and keeping them waiting

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 12, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday urged the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to refrain from an unnecessary war of words, as the party sought to assuage controversy over KMT Secretary-General Mo Tien-hu’s (莫天虎) no-show at a party event for post-typhoon reconstruction workers in Taitung City.

“The DPP’s criticism is inappropriate. We did not arrange for Mo to pay his respects to reconstruction workers in Taitung City when we finalized his itinerary on Saturday,” KMT Culture and Communications Committee director Chow Chi-wai (周志偉) said at KMT headquarters in Taipei.

Chow said the visit to the cleanup squads and reconstruction workers on Taitung’s Nanjing Road was suggested by staff at the KMT’s Taitung County branch on the spur of the moment, after they spotted the workers when they were on their way to greet Mo at Taitung Airport on Sunday morning.     [FULL  STORY]