At McCain Fundraiser, Poizner is a Skunk at the Garden Party

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

So where was Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner today? Word is that he was chewing on chicken wings (and probably some caviar) in former eBay head honcho's Meg Whitman's Atherton backyard at a fundraiser she hosted for Sen. John McCain.
 
Whitman is said to have raised $2.5 million for McCain today -- which must have made her fellow bizillionaire a bit jealous. Because while he was at the fundraiser, one of Poizner's state employees was trying to plant stories with reporters that Whitman had raised money for (gasp) Democrats in the past.
 
Outrageous you say? Well, turns out that Mr. Poizner was pretty adept at doing that too before he figured out he'd have a better chance buying his way to the governship via the Republican route (not that I can blame him, since the GOP has no bench except for fellow Polo Club members Jerry Parsky, Rick Caruso, and Whitman).
 
In 2000, Poizner gave $10,000 to the Democratic National Committee. He also donated $1,000 in February 2000 to Al Gore and $2,000 to John Kerry in February 2001.
 
Poizner's attempt to undermine Whitman today would only have served to give the McCain event bad press (he also got some at a SF fundraiser), a move that certainly wouldn't endear him to fellow Republicans. Looks like it's amateur hour in Camp Poizner.