I find it odd that people who are green voters are still supporting her when she has pretty much torpedoed the Green party vote at this election by effectively misrepresenting her own circumstances. It's probably one of the worst pieces of politics in the last 20 years
It's blown up worse than it should have, Nats have had numerous worse scandals which have just whimpered out. The people on the right seem to be less inclined to hold people accountable than on the left.
Holding people to account has nothing to do with the left or right.
Well, look at the lack of controversy around:
John Keys sexual harassment allegation, investments in government assets, and numerous lies.
Bill English lying about his living conditions in order for the tax payer to pay his mortgage, his dubious financial practices like forcing solid energy to borrow money at high interest in order to pay a large dividend to the government so that they could achieve a promised surplus (which ended up bankrupting the company), not to mention his history of views (voted against marriage equality has said he would vote against any bill which stopped abortion from being a criminal offense, denying climate change.)
Judith Collins (need I say more)
Gerry Brownlee bypassing security (which that comedian guy Ben someone was arrested for doing and other people have had large fines, flight bans, and community service for also doing).
Not to mention all the stuff that Trump and his cronies did before being elected in the US (and since).
That's off the top of my head, I'm sure I've missed plenty of controversies big and small, the point is that all of those were worse or equivalent to Turei yet nothing was career ending.