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Minnesota's Republican Sen. Norm Coleman is donating $2,500 in campaign contributions from Sen. Larry Craig to a Minneapolis charity a day after he called for the Idaho Republican's resignation.
Coleman was one of four GOP Senate candidates who received checks this election cycle from Craig's political action committee, Alliance for the West. He is planning to give the money to Sharing and Caring Hands, a Minneapolis charity. His campaign director Cullen Sheehan said, "We aren't going to keep the contribution because he has pled guilty to a crime unbecoming of a senator."
But the campaign will not return $10,000 that the PAC donated in 2002. Sheehan said the money was spent five years ago and the "election is over."
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, also said she would turn over to charity $2,500 she received from the PAC. It also gave money to Sens. Pete Dominici of New Mexico and John Sununu of New Hampshire.
Meanwhile, more of Craig's Republican colleagues distanced themselves. Sen. John Ensign of Nevada stopped short of calling on him to resign but suggested strongly that he should. Arizona Sen. John McCain has called for Craig to resign.
JAKE SHERMAN and AP
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