Allan Wai-Ket Fung (born February 25, 1970) is an American attorney and politician who served as Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, from 2009 to 2021.
He was previously a state prosecutor and attorney on legislative and regulatory affairs before serving on the Cranston City Council as a city-wide councilman.
[4] Fung said he lost consciousness and struck and killed James W. Skipper Jr., who had stopped on the side of the road to change a tire.
[5] Fung earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rhode Island College in 1992 and a Juris Doctor from the Suffolk University Law School in 1995.
[6] Prior to his municipal leadership career, from 1999 to 2001, Fung served as a prosecutor, acting as Special Assistant, for the Rhode Island Attorney General.
[18] Under Fung's leadership, Cranston became one of the Top 50 Cities to Live in America for three years in a row according to the website 24/7 Wall Street.
[20] Because of term limits established in 2012, Fung could not re-run for mayor in 2020 and instead endorsed Kenneth Hopkins, who went on to win the election against Democratic candidate Maria Bucci.
[21] On January 4, 2021, Fung planned to attend the inauguration of Hopkins and administer the oath, but instead tested positive for COVID-19 and immediately left Cranston's City Council chambers, the location where the ceremony was being held.
[37] He won the nomination unopposed but lost to Democrat Seth Magaziner in the general election by a vote of 101,432 (50%) to 93,969 (47%), His defeat was considered an upset because it conflicted with polls.
[44] During a primary debate, he said he supported making Rhode Island a "right-to-work" state and noted that he switched some city employees from a public pension to private plans.
[45] During the 2018 gubernatorial campaign, Fung proposed reducing the sales tax to five percent, cutting fees, and introducing a concierge service for businesses.
[51] He was endorsed by Rhode Island Right to Life, a group opposed to legal abortion because they supported the restrictions proposed by Fung.
[60] Running for Congress, he said that he supports legal abortion "up to a certain time frame" during the second trimester with exceptions for later in a pregnancy for the health of the patient, rape, and incest.
[68] In 2018, he opposed Rhode Island's "red flag" gun control executive order signed by the governor because it did not require input from mental health professionals.