UNITED STATES -- There's a bump in the road toward the GOP convention this September. The man picked by John McCain's campaign to run the 2008 Republican National Convention has resigned.

Doug Goodyear stepped down as coordinator of the convention after a report linked his lobbying firm to the military junta in Myanmar. Newsweek reports Goodyear's firm, DCI Group, was paid $348,000 in 2002 and 2003 to represent Myanmar's junta. Goodyear says he's resigning because he does not want his lobbying firm's past work to be a distraction, but says he continues to strongly support McCain.

A spokesman for the McCain campaign says it respects Goodyear's decision.