As many Virginia conservatives know, one of our most urgent objectives today is to keep the Organized Left from winning control of the U. S. House of Representatives.

But when our own Tenth District incumbent Frank Wolf develops chronic tin ear, it puts conservatives in a hard place.

On the one hand, Wolf-challenger Judy Feder would be a consistent and diligent advocate of big and intrusive government.

Whatever expansive government schemes Mr. Wolf might flirt with and nurture, we can be sure that Mrs. Feder would proceed in lock step with the House Democratic Caucus, systematically to rein in both our enterprise and our liberties.

On the other hand, conservatives must have the forebearance of a saint in coming to terms with Mr. Wolf’s unrevealed earmarks and his apparent indifference to our property rights.

A just-released Congressional scorecard under the auspices of the American Land Rights Association gives Mr. Wolf only a 68 per cent rating - - - compared with 100 per cent ratings for four other Virginia U. S. Representatives (Eric Cantor, Thelma Drake, Virgil Goode, and Bob Goodlatte).

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From Leesburg Today:

Loudoun County lost its only seat on the Commonwealth Transportation Board after Gov. Timothy Kaine (D) replaced Leesburg attorney Robert Sevila with E. Dana Dickens III, of Suffolk, as one of two at-large urban representatives on the board.

 

In addition, Kaine appointed Fauquier resident Peter B. Schwartz, who is a member of the Piedmont Environmental Council’s board of directors, as the at-large rural representative to the CTB, replacing Hunter R. Watson, of Farmville.

 

Schwartz represents the second appointment by Kaine of PEC-affiliated campaign contributors to state-level positions. [Snip]

 

Schwartz, who ran unsuccessfully to unseat Del. Clifford “Clay” Athey Jr. (R-18) in 2001, contributed nearly $50,000 to Kaine’s lieutenant governor and gubernatorial campaigns and inaugurations from 2001 to 2006.

Call it a convergence of political cronyism and anti-growth ideology. I guess the idea is to preserve Western Loudoun county as an artificial “nature preserve” for the super affluent at taxpayers’ expense.

In the mean time, the growing middle class exurbs in Eastern Loudoun will subsidize the rest of the state while the county’s own ballooning transportation needs go unmet by Richmond.