Both the Federal election Commission and the New York Times finally started asking questions about why Senator Cruz’s SuperPAC would give half a million dollars to Carly Fiorina’s SuperPAC.

Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen brought it to our attention two months ago.

In a letter last week to the Cruz super PAC, known as Keep the Promise I, the election commission sought additional information about the gift. The super PAC listed it under “other disbursement”; it would have to do better than that, the commission said.

“Itemized disbursements must include a brief statement or description of why each disbursement was made,” it wrote.

The head of Ted’s SuperPAC says it’s “nothing.”  Yeah well, that’s not an answer.

He said the Cruz committee had given the money to the Fiorina group in June when it was still considering its options.

Wait a minute, the Ted Cruz SuperPAC wasn’t all that sure it was supporting Ted Cruz?

The head of the PAC also “scoffed at some speculation that the $500,000 was an attempt by Mr. Cruz’s backers to help his campaign by strengthening Mrs. Fiorina at the expense of other rivals.”  Well damn, if he did, it worked.

I always suspected it was because Fiorina’s so vicious about Hillary and the GOP figured it was better coming from a witchy woman.

Of note, the PAC got a total of five letters from the FEC on this one filing.  A campaign finance lawyer said that was “unusual,” and suggest “sloppy bookkeeper.”  Ya think?