Another Green defector to Sustainable NZ

The Herald reports:

A Wellington regional councillor has found a home in New Zealand’s newest political party after he says he was “shafted” by the Greens. …

Lee successfully ran on the Green Party ticket for two terms as a Wellington City councillor.
But when he set his sights on the regional council this year, he lost the party’s endorsement to Thomas Nash, leaving Lee shocked.
“I felt quite betrayed because I committed a lot of time, energy and money to the party.
“There was a feeling that a ‘greener person’ was a better candidate, but I was very disappointed at being shafted by my own party”, Lee said at the time
He also said politics was the art of compromise and felt the Green philosophy was “zero compromise”.
“It’s better to get a few wins for the greater good rather than to die in a ditch over very ideological issues.”

No wonder he did badly in the Greens.