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.