Ye Xiangyuan (right), director of the campaign office of Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan, held a press conference this morning (4) with legislator Chen Jinghui (from left), assembly members Zhong Peijun, and Zhang Sigang, criticizing Shen Boyang for not openly acknowledging the claims he made when he was a scholar in 2014. (Photo taken by reporter Fang Bin)
The Kuomintang dug up a 2014 article by DPP Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang, and singled out a paragraph about "Establishing a community center to provide drug users with drugs and clean needles" to question Shen's position. Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan's campaign office met with legislator Chen Jinghui, legislators Zhang Sigang and Chung Pei this morning (4) Jun jointly held a press conference and criticized Shen Boyang for not openly acknowledging the claims he made when he was a scholar in 2014. He also pointed out that Shen Boyang had "zero questions and zero bills" on drug prevention in the Legislative Yuan in the past two years. Faced with issues such as drug driving, zombie cigarette cartridges, and drug rejuvenation, he did not propose a specific version of the law.
Zhang Sigang said that among Shen Boyang's three concepts of drugs, drugs and medicines are both "drugs". According to this logic, taking medicine is taking poison, and doctors prescribing medicines are prescribing drugs. Can everyone accept this? In addition, there are many words with the same meaning but different meanings in English. For example, "bear" can mean bear or "endure". Should it be "bear bear, bear bear?" These are all interchangeable concepts. If in 2014 he came from a scholar's point of view and believed in establishing community centers to provide clean needles and drugs, and he is a candidate for mayor in 2026, should he openly admit the views of scholar Shen Boyang in 2014 and turn them into political opinions?
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Zhang Sigang said that the US-SA Winter Policy was launched on a trial basis in 2005 and fully launched in 2006. Shen Boyang's controversial article was published in 2014, sarcastically saying, "What kind of smart, wise, theoretically based scholar would re-promote the 2006 policy in 2014?" "Policies that are already in full swing", what's more, there is not a single word in the article that mentions the treatment, experience, and policies of methadone, or the areas that need to be strengthened. This has made him anxious these days, and has been using cyber troops to replace the concept. This is the worst example of a politician, the most disloyal to his own ideas, and the worst example.
Zhong Peijun criticized Shen Boyang for being "indifferent" in the past two days. "Shen Boyang in 2026 cannot face the high-profile scholar Shen Boyang in 2014." He also named New Taipei City mayor candidate Su Qiaohui from the Democratic Progressive Party. Are the two "converging ocean currents" or "converging poisonous currents?" Su Qiaohui has not said anything about Shen Boyang's claims. Do you want to endorse Shen Boyang?
Legislator Chen Jinghui pointed out that Shen Boyang's 2014 article criticized the "inadequacy of relevant laws" and "lack of complete cooperation from private institutions" at that time, but methadone replacement therapy and related harm reduction measures have been implemented in Taiwan for many years. She questioned that Shen Boyang now interpreted the text of that year as methadone treatment, which was inconsistent with the original text of the article.
Chen Jinghui further pointed out that since Shen Boyang served as a legislator for more than two years, he has "zero questions and zero bills" for drug prevention and has not proposed specific revisions to the law when it comes to issues such as drug driving, zombie cigarette cartridges, and drug rejuvenation. She criticized that if Shen Boyang was really concerned about drug policy for a long time, he should use his power as a legislator to raise questions and amend the law, instead of just "playing around with issues" during the election.
Ye Xiangyuan, director of Jiang Wanan's campaign office, finally said that Shen Boyang should answer: 1. Do you still agree with the statement that "drugs are just medicine"? 2. If we still advocate setting up a community center, where should it be located and what drugs that require needles should be distributed? 3. Mayor Jiang Wanan clearly opposes the decriminalization of drugs, and Shen Boyang has directed research on drug decriminalization in the past. What is his current position?
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