After the KMT-TPP majority cut and froze the state affairs fund, the Presidential Office cancelled its order of 15,000 boxes of Mid-Autumn gift sets from sheltered workshops. Chang Chia-chun stepped in by paying out of her own pocket — stopping the bleeding for disability groups, but creating political trouble for both the ruling and opposition camps.

• The Presidential Office had originally planned to order 15,000 boxes of Mid-Autumn gift sets from 37 sheltered workshops and disability groups nationwide, but called it off after the budget was cut and frozen in full.
• Chang Chia-chun, the KMT's candidate for Yunlin County magistrate, donated a month of her legislative salary to buy gift sets made by Yunlin social welfare organisations instead.
• Taichung City, for its part, used municipal budget funds to purchase mooncakes from social welfare groups. Asked whether the two were competing, Lu Shiow-yen and Chang Chia-chun both only smiled and declined to answer.
• The two visited the Taichung Green Museumbrary together that day, with Chang Chia-chun saying Yunlin plans to build a main library, the "Gengyun Library", along with an art museum, and that the standard should match Taichung's.
• Lu Shiow-yen said Yunlin's current situation closely resembles that of Taichung eight years ago, and that she is willing to share her experience and help in every way she can.

Outlook: Where the blame lies for the cancelled gift set orders will continue to be fought over between the ruling and opposition camps, while the joint appearance by Chang Chia-chun and Lu Shiow-yen also signals how the year-end magistrate race will be run.