Questions about Ling-Ling Chang receiving political contributions influenced by people and businesses with foreign connections are growing after recent campaign disclosures. Though for years she claimed she was “born and raised in Diamond Bar” on websites and to the news media, 55th Assembly District candidate Ling-Ling Chang, a Republican, was actually born in Taipei, Taiwan. Chang’s other misrepresentations about having a degree in Biology from U.C. Riverside and attending Harvard University have been shot down in recent press accounts. But the matter of Chang’s campaign being fueled, in part, by Taiwan and Chinese-based business interests raises new questions about the candidate and whose interests she will favor if elected.
For example, Jackson Yang, the President of First General Bank, has contributed $1,000 to Chang. First General is described as a bank “organized by immigrants” with several branches and based in Rowland Heights. Yang is a former President of the Taiwanese-American Chamber of Commerce and owns a company that is import-sensitive and sells items like foreign-made waste receptacles to companies like WalMart. Yang is a big donor to Democrats, giving $6,300 to California’s Judy Chu for Congress, $4,800 to disgraced Democrat David Wu for Congress in Oregon (Wu won his race but resigned from Congress after a sex scandal involving a teenager), and $2,500 to the Democratic Congressional Committee. Chang is the only Republican running for a partisan office that Yang appears to have given a political contribution to.
Another import-sensitive company executive contributing $500 to Chang is Yu Tse Lee, President of Fastech Enterprises, which according to their website “specializes in metal fastener sourcing from Asia.” Amber Hung Sun of the Taiwan Benevolent Association is a $1,000 contributor. Sunrise Asia Worldwide Limited executive Tien Lin, whose occupation is listed as “investor”, and gave $500 to Chang, does not have an English internet footprint for his company. Though he contributed just $200, Yining Zhang’s company, Pacific Rainbow International, is China’s leading supplier of chondroitin and glucosamine sulfate and sells products in California. MegaToys, with offices in Hong Kong and California, imports toys and consumer items for sale in U.S. retail chains, and one of its executives, Charles Woo, is listed as a $1,000 donor to Chang. These donors are just a few of the many contributors disclosed by Chang that have some sort of a connection to Asian business interests, and it remains to be seen what further scrutiny will bring on Chang’s curious foreign-influenced funding.
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