Meg Whitman already looked like she had a good handle on the GOP primary for governor of California, but now her top rival, Steve Poizner, has this bit of bad luck:

The Republican who spent $1,946.25 on “meals” at a bondage-themed Hollywood nightclub – and expensed the charges to chairman Michael Steele’s Republican National Committee – is the owner of a marketing firm who most recently worked for a Republican gubernatorial candidate in California, The Daily Caller has learned.
Erik Brown, who owns Dynamic Marketing Inc. and most recently charged the Steve Poizner for Governor campaign more than $10,000 for campaign literature and mailings, was reimbursed by the RNC for the almost $2,000 in charges at Voyeur West Hollywood, according to FEC filings and online reports reviewed by The Daily Caller.

Suggested spin: He misunderstood us; we told him to look into spending restraints.