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Coleman Sheds Craig Contributions While Lott Resists Resignation Call
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| Last Edited | RP Aug 29, 2007 09:07pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, August 30, 2007 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) has become the first lawmaker to announce that he is not keeping a political donation from embattled Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho).
Hours after calling for Craig's resignation, Coleman's Senate campaign told Capitol Briefing that it would likely turn over a $2,500 donation from Craig's political action committee to a local charity.
"We are not going to keep it," Cullen Sheehan, Coleman's campaign spokesman, said in a telephone interview.
The donation to Coleman, from Craig's Alliance for the West PAC, came just two weeks after Craig's June 11 arrest in a Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport men's restroom, resulting in a guilty plea for disorderly conduct involving an undercover police officer working a lewd-conduct sting.
At this point, the closest thing Craig has to a public defender is Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), the minority whip who himself endured a scandal in December 2002 that ended with him giving up his post as Republican leader because of intemperate remarks at the late Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party. Lott hung on during that period for more than two weeks, and one of his staunchest defenders was Craig, who had served for more than six years in the GOP leadership with Lott. |
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