By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Juliet Eilperin The veteran political operative chosen by Sen. John McCain to run the Republican National conference that summer abruptly resigned yesterday after Newsweek revealed that the lobbying and public relations firm he heads once represented the Burmese government. Doug Goodyear, the chief executive and co-founder of DCI Group, said in a statement that he resigned the post “so as not to become a distraction in that campaign.” DCI, a well-known Republican firm that provides lobbying services mostly for corporate interests, was paid $348,000 in 2002 and 2003 to represent Burma’s junta, Newsweek reported on its Web site yesterday. “It was our only

foreign representation, it was for a short tenure, and it was six years ago,” Newsweek quoted Goodyear as saying.

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