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By John H. Arundel
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Sen. John Warner (R-YA) has lost his chief of staff to the Richmond-based energy company Dominion Resources.
Ann Loomis, who became Warner’s chief of staff last year after 18 year as his legislative director, has joined Dominion as its director of federal government relations. Loomis had been the senator’s principal staffer on the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works. Loomis reached retirement age this year, and decided to enter the private sector.
“Ann was with Sen. Warner longer than just about anyone in this office,” Warner spokesman John Ullyot told The Hill newspaper. Last year Loomis replaced Warner’s longtime chief of staff, Susan Magill.
Warner, at age 80, is still debating whether to run for reelection in 2008. After putting off his decision in May, he is now vowing to announce his decision by September. If he wins and completes another term, Warner’s 36 years in the Senate would make him the longest-serving Virginian ever in that legislative body.
Loomis will be replaced by Carter Comick, 45, of Charlottesville, who is an official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and who previously worked in Warner’s office. Chelsea Maxwell, 37, a Maine native who was the legislative director at the National Wildlife Federation, will serve as deputy.
Loomis’ decision to join Dominion comes at a critical juncture, as the giant utility plans to string transmission lines across the Piedmont’s placid and historic landscape. Critics of the line have recently lobbied federal regulators with impassioned narratives of how their lives would be impacted by the crackling, potentially harmful 500-kV power lines.
The Department of Energy’s Office of Electric Delivery and Energy
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