Taipei Times
Date: May 28, 2019
By: Huang Liang-chieh and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Drain covers on four streets in Kaohsiung’s Desheng Borough (德生) have been decorated
Images of Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu, the Kaohsiung City logo and a phoenix adorn a drain cover in Kaohsiung yesterday.
Photo: Huang Liang-chieh, Taipei Times
with images of Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), prompting accusations that Desheng Warden Wu San-hsiung (吳三雄) was “sucking up.”
The Kaohsiung City Government on May 4 said it hoped that likenesses of the mayor on city documents would use the image promoted by the Kaohsiung Bureau of Information.
Wu denied that replacing the covers with ones featuring the bureau’s image of Han was done to please the mayor.
Residents said that the new covers, which have smaller openings to allow space for graphics, would inhibit drainage during torrential rainfall.
One resident said they wondered whether Wu, a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) member, felt compelled to “suck up” to Han to secure funds for borough projects. [FULL STORY]
