Complex sentence: Puckett's resignation coincided with an offer by the Virginia Republican Party to appoint him as the deputy director of the state tobacco commission, and plans by them to confirm his daughter to her full six-year term following his resignation.
Split into simpler sentences: Puckett's resignation coincided with an offer by the Virginia Republican Party to appoint him as the deputy director of the state tobacco commission. Republican legislators also planned to confirm Puckett's daughter to her full six-year term following his resignation.