Tang Huizhen, a legislator of the Democratic Progressive Party, criticized that the political manipulation of Lanying members seriously discredited and belittled the efforts and dedication of the county government, city government and all public officials in the past.

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[Reporter Chen Zhengyu/Taipei Report] KMT Taoyuan City Councilors Ling Tao and Shu Cuiling accused former Taoyuan Mayor and Executive Yuan Vice President Zheng Wencan of embezzling 210 million yuan from the public welfare lottery foundation that should have been earmarked for disadvantaged groups. Taoyuan The city government is now required by the Overwatch Council to return the money. It is basically "Zheng Wencan treats guests and Zhang Shanzheng pays the bill."

Tang Huizhen, a legislator of the Democratic Progressive Party, said bluntly today (25th), "This is a deliberate distortion of the facts."

Tang Huizhen said that in the past, the Taoyuan City Government received a surplus of about 1 billion yuan in public welfare lottery tickets every year, and used special funds to promote related social welfare. At the same time, the social bureau will also prepare a budget of more than 10 billion yuan. During the term of the mayor, he ranked among the best in all counties and cities.

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Tang Huizhen said that during Zheng Wencan's tenure, in addition to attaching great importance to the care of the disadvantaged, he also promoted many innovative policies, such as health insurance subsidies for the elderly, denture subsidies, children, disabilities, low- and middle-income, maternity subsidies, and childcare subsidies. Afterwards, the results were remarkable, and other counties and cities as well as the central government followed suit one after another.

Tang Huizhen explained that such a way of using funds has been practiced for many years in the former county government, and it was not the first of Zheng Wencan's city government.

According to the investigation report of the Supervisory Yuan, it was during the period of the former county magistrate Zhu Lilun (2007) that social welfare publicity and subsidy funds began to be adjusted to be supported by the surplus of public welfare lottery tickets.

During Zheng Wencan's tenure, the subsidies approved by associations were never divided into blue, green, and party affiliation. They were all to assist civil society organizations to promote social welfare. Councilor Shu's political manipulation is to seriously discredit and belittle the past county government, city government and all civil servants effort and dedication.

Tang Huizhen mentioned that Shu Cuiling once served as the chairman of the "Taoyuan City Beautiful Life Development Association". Since 2003, it has applied for subsidies from the public welfare lottery surplus fund. As of 2022, the association has received a total of 1.042 million subsidies approved by the Taoshi government.

Activities include "Happy Baking Teaching - Tiramisu and Women's Welfare Promotion", "Healthy Diet and Rest Lectures and Elderly Welfare Promotion", "Boxing Aerobic, Swinging Health and Children and Youth Welfare Promotion", etc. Quite diverse.

Are these activity subsidies also what Shu Cuiling called "abusing", "treating guests to dinner", and "illegal"?

Tang Huizhen further stated that during his term of office, Mayor Zheng Wencan has prepared a budget of 60 million to supplement the public welfare lottery fund, the official budget and the Taoyuan City public welfare lottery fund. It is the adjustment between different financial sources of the city government, which does not affect the total amount of funds available to the city government as a whole. The total revenue and expenditure of the city government have not changed. As a senior representative of public opinion, can't you understand the budget?