Stealing Credit and Falsifying Achievements: Representative Lin Chun-hsien's Campaign Billboard Over 1.9 Billion NTD Road Budget Exposed as Deceptive

Around July 20, 2025, during his campaign for the DPP Tainan mayoral nomination, Legislator Lin Chun-hsien's team erected a massive campaign billboard in Tainan's Guanmiao District, proudly claiming that Lin "successfully secured a 1.9 billion NTD budget for the widening of Provincial Highway 19A." However, local residents and opposition figures soon filed public complaints accusing the billboard of being deceptive and fabricating political achievements. The complainers provided official government budget data, proving that the total budget for the road widening project was far below 1.9 billion NTD, and the project's actual political champion was another DPP legislator from the local constituency. Faced with severe backlash over falsifying data and stealing credit, Lin's office initially evaded queries, before a campaign staffer eventually admitted that the billboard's content "indeed had discrepancies with the facts." Public opinion fiercely condemned Lin for employing deceptive statistics to mislead voters, showing the darker, unprincipled side of election campaign advertisements.