Li Xiaoting wrote a thousand-word article to counter attack Tuka: Silence should not be interpreted as acquiescence

The election for the mayor of Yuanshan Township in Yilan County is heating up. Recently, an attack card targeting Democratic Progressive Party candidate Li Xiaoting has been circulated on the Internet, questioning her past experience in Dahu Elementary School. In the face of slander, Li Xiaoting no longer chose to remain silent today and published a thousand-word article on Facebook to fight back. She said sadly that in the past two years, in order to protect the reputation of the school and avoid causing disturbances to the campus, she has always restrained and tolerated various controversies, but "silence should not be interpreted as acquiescence."

Li Xiaoting pointed out in the statement that the source of the controversy was that she discovered many doubts when tracing the accounts while serving as the vice president of the Parents' Association of Dahu Elementary School. She emphasized that the starting point is not personal grudges, but to clarify the whereabouts of every fund from the parent-teacher association and ensure that the accounts can be clearly explained to parents and donors. To this end, she even personally visited the township head Zhang Yihua and his wife, hoping to work together to help clarify the accounting issues and return things to the essence of education.

However, things went contrary to expectations. Not only were the accounting issues not resolved, they were maliciously distorted during the election and became fodder to attack her. Li Xiaoting said that in the face of the successive black letters and false rumors, she decided not to back down. She will lay out the time, figures, accounting information and even judicial documents in her hands one by one under the sun, handing it over to the public for public comment and letting the facts speak for themselves.

Li Xiaoting admitted that in order to trace the accounts, she even went to the District Prosecutor's Office to explain herself as a "criminal defendant", and was eventually dismissed from prosecution. She emphasized that this experience was not something to hide, but was proof that she was willing to face the test publicly. She appealed that if the accounts are in order, complete information should be provided to clear up the doubts; if there is a dispute, it should be re-examined by the competent authorities in accordance with the procedures, because children's education funds and donations from all walks of life should be properly managed and accounted for.

"Let facts return to facts, and education return to education." Li Xiaoting reiterated that her forbearance two years ago was to protect the school, and her step forward today is to defend reputation and the truth. She said she would accept all reasonable public tests and would not be afraid of any smear. She hoped that the election campaign would return to rational discussions, give local governments a clean electoral space, and prevent the educational environment from being affected by political disturbances.