Taiwanese Party Crowd-Funds the Old Way - via Piggy Banks
- In era of online giving, Tsai seeks coins from `pig farmers'
- Opposition chief leading polls in effort to unseat ruling KMT
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As small, digital donations propel insurgent candidates from Ted Cruz to Bernie Sanders in the U.S., one opposition party an ocean away is relying on old-fashioned pocket change to fuel its rise.
Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party could unseat the well-heeled Kuomintang and win both the presidency and the legislature for the first time in island-wide elections less than three weeks from now. The party’s surge has been funded largely by loose coins -- lots of them, collected in thousands of colorful, plastic pigs, each no bigger than a football.