‘Bout Time, New York Times
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?
The “sloppy bookkeeper”, huh? Sounds like the title to a bad porn movie. Sheesh. Can’t these people be honest about ANYTHING?!!!
1i’m sorry, I can’t comment on the substance of the entry because I get the dry heaves every time I see that man’s smirk, and I use the word “man” loosely. He and the word “truth” do not have much of an acquaintance.
On the other hand, completely off-topic but I feel compelled to share one of the best smackdowns I’ve seen in a while, from comments on the Washington Post article about the Pope’s address to Congress:
TomSixGunDrawHombre:
It’s hard to take this guy seriously – his name is Francis and he wears a dress.
science200:
2You probably wear a diaper but we won’t hold it against you.
Possible reasons for payment.
He knows he’s not going to win the nomination so he paying for the VP position….
OR
He’s paying protection money so Carly won’t be/say mean to him…
Or
She knows something major about him that he does NOT want the rest of us to know about.
OR
3Nope, not going there.
Well, I doubt if the FEC would have liked it listed where it really belonged – like under Vigorish!
4@mb
5“Good will”.
Diane, like pictures of Ted and a goat?
6Specify type of goat. Also, billy goat or nanny goat?
7The FEC is not that well staffed and is often behind on its business but when it does get to you, watch the hell out. That personal check written to a candidate’s campaign while attending a neighborhood house party fund raiser has to be reported cuz if not, the FEC can get snippy.
8@Charles D. #7 – Love is love! Does gender really matter?
9The mystery of it all….
10The FEC usually tells subjects that the initial letter won’t be repeated. So why does this slimy turd get four freebies?
11I’m with Rhea. There’s something about the look on his face that gives me shivers. In the future, J.J., could you put a blue circle over it so those of us with weak constitutions can get past it.
12Tony, it was a sheep… a demon sheep!
13A left-handed demon sheep?
14Like two other people: I can’t look at him or listen to him without making donations to the porcelain wishing well. Is it like legionnaire’s disease except not spread by air conditioners? Even his picture gives me the wim-wams. Maybe I should “force look” at him in order to lose some weight? I might be able to do that, for good results…
15No…
16Ted and carly.
Smarmy = Ted Cruz
Definition of Smarmy
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smarmy
Take your pick!
17Talk about an unholy alliance!
18Keep us updated. This is somewhat interesting.
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