The second McCain aide in as many days has left the campaign over ties to a public relations firm that once represented the Burmese junta.



Doug Davenport, one of McCain's 11 regional campaign managers, quit his post today, a McCain spokeswoman said in response to an inquiry.



"Doug has tendered his resignation and we have accepted it," Jill Hazelbaker wrote in an e-mail.



She said Davenport quit this morning for the same reason that spurred McCain's hand-picked convention manager to resign yesterday: connections to the DCI Group.



As reported yesterday by Newsweek, the Republican-heavy PR firm was on retainer for the repressive regime in Burma in 2002.



Doug Goodyear, who would have been McCain's man at the St. Paul convention, was the target of Michael Isikoff's story.



But the report also put immense pressure on Davenport, who had run DCI's lobbying practice before signing on with McCain last month to run Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky and West Virginia for McCain.



"I have long supported John McCain and do not want anything in my past business career - whether properly depicted or not - to distract the Senator's campaign," Davenport said in a statement.



[Updated with Davenport statement]

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