There is a saying that goes like this: a new broom will sweep the office at least three times(新官上任三把火), meaning the new one who takes an office would bring up new policies or rectify the existing faults.  Obviously, Mr. Ke, the newly inducted mayor of Taipei, is no exception to the rule.  In fact, he did sweep the office very hard. 

But whatever brilliant ideas or creative thinkings a new broom may take into action should absolutely not infringe the law, even he or she is being of high popularity or just playing to the gallery by saying political claptraps.  Since I've got back to Taiwan, I found Ke P is almost always the limelight of media, no matter on papers or on TV.(BTW, what does P stand for, physician?)  I don't quite understand, nor am I interested in what he is bragging about all day long, all I do hope that he will be a law-abiding mayor. 

I really don't understand what kind of mindset that has made the citizens of Taipei choose a man of hauteur, frivolity and asperity like Mr. Ke.  Should any politicians of America, Canada, or even of Japan ever act like him, they would have out of game for sure.  The phenomenon indirectly testifies the statement in my last posting: Taiwan is a society of immature democracy; or more strictly, a society full of populism.