WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is taking his calls to build a “big tent” party seriously – with the RNC running up a nearly $2,000 tab at a bondage-themed West Hollywood nightclub.

The hard partying on RNC’s dime was revealed in the committee’s FEC filings reviewed by the Daily Caller, which examined a February RNC trip to LA.

Included was $1,946.25 spent at Voyeur, a “bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.”

Also expensed was $9,099 at the Beverly Hills Hotel and $5,596 at the Four Seasons. Steele was already under fire for a pricey RNC winter meeting in Hawaii costing $4,000.

RNC spokesman Doug Heye denied that Steele had ever visited the club and said they were investigating the cost.

“The chairman was never at the location in question, he had no knowledge of the expenditure, nor does he find the use of committee funds at such a location at all acceptable,” Heye said in a statement to reporters.

As for Voyeur’s ambiance, the top listing on reviewing site Yelp states simply: “Oh. Wow. Rolled up here with 6 girls around midnight on a Saturday night … Seriously. This club is amazing. There are topless “dancers” acting out S&M scenes throughout the night on one of the side stages, there’s a half-naked girl hanging from a net across the ceiling …”