Green’s can’t pay their bills

Newshub reports:

The Green Party may have secured a number of ministerial roles in the new Parliament with Labour and NZ First, but they’re struggling to pay their campaign bills.

It was a heated election campaign, which saw polling numbers rise and plummet over the course of the months, and co-leader Metiria Turei resign in the wake of revealing she had previously defrauded Work and Income NZ.

And while it had a good result in the end, securing eight seats, it came at a high cost.

Party leader James Shaw confirmed the financial struggles in an email sent to all Green Party members, saying despite fundraising, they’re still trying to pay off campaign bills and ongoing administration cots.

“We have already trimmed any excess expenses and with fewer MPs to pay tithes into the Party coffers, we are experiencing a significant shortfall,” he said.

“If each person receiving this email donates $100 we would be in the clear.

Given time it will be the country that can’t pay its bills, not just the Green Party.

Assuming the Greens have at least 10,000 people on their e-mail list, it looks like their debts are quite large.