The Minnesota DFL Party is calling on Republican Sen. Norm Coleman to divest campaign donations made by employees of a firm that lobbied for Myanmar's junta.
The Coleman campaign quickly rejected the call, saying that the contributions were legal and that the company was engaged in legal activities.
At issue are donations from the political action committee and employees of the DCI Group. The lobbying firm's chief executive, Doug Goodyear, resigned Saturday as coordinator of the Republican National Convention after Newsweek reported that the company was paid $348,000 in 2002 and 2003 to represent Myanmar's junta.
The DFL is calling on Coleman to donate to charity the roughly $10,000 in donations made to his campaign and leadership PAC by DCI's PAC and employees, including Goodyear.
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