Ace Parsi

Ace Parsi earned a high school diploma from Wyoming Area High School and a bachelor's degree from Penn State University in 2005. His career experience includes working as an advocate.[1]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

My story starts with escaping a dictatorship and ends with finding a home in West Virginia. Everything in between is why I fight. I am a father, husband, public education supporter, and democracy advocate. I immigrated to the US when I was eight and a half. Now I have a ten-year-old daughter and I'm running because I want this country to remain a vibrant democracy for her. I know what it's like when people are good and their government isn't, when government is the greatest source of injustice in people's lives, and when want a voice don't. I'm running to change the system that's enabling this to happen.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

We can have a more affordable future. By overturning the cuts in the Big Beautiful Bill, turning back tariffs on groceries, eliminating the current benefit cliffs that diminish people's motivation to get ahead, reducing corporate waste and handouts, and funding key priorities around education, housing, food, and healthcare, we can have that.We can have a more caring future. By investing in infrastructure around clean drinking water and investing in the individuals in care jobs whether they're nurses and teachers or law enforcement, we can make West Virginia an even better place to live.We can have a more empowered future. We can take the power back from big tech and their AI imagined future and create systems and relationships where government and elected officials are more responsive to the needs and views of their constituents.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Affordability and how to make life more affordable for regular people. I grew up poor and want to create public systems that better serve low income people. Care and how that relates to public education and educators, nurses, and public safety in ways that affirm our children and people's basic dignity. Democracy and all things democracy because I fled authoritarianism and will be damned if I have not done all I can to make this country's democracy an inspiration for others in the world.

Campaign websiteParsi's campaign website stated the following:AFFORDABILITYMaking sure West Virginians can afford to live, work, and stay.Affordability has three interconnected dimensions: a just transition for workers left behind by economic policies, lower prices on food and other key items families need to live, and the infrastructure investments that communities desperately need.2-for-1 Community Investment PlanBuying the Stuff You Need to LiveInfrastructure That Makes Communities ViableCARECaring for our people. Caring for our land.In West Virginia, we care about each other. That is our identity and our strength. Government should reflect that — investing in the people who care for our communities and in the land that defines who we are.Treating AddictionCaring for Care WorkersCaring for our Wild and Wonderful LandEMPOWERMENTMontani Semper Liberi. Mountaineers are always free.Empowerment means that power flows to the people — not to corporations, not to the wealthy, not to unaccountable executives. Five dimensions define this agenda: community control, worker power, human rights, transparent government, and a democracy where every vote counts.Transparent Government: Money Out, People InCommunity Power: Your Neighborhood, Your ChoiceWorker Power: The Right to OrganizeHumans Have Rights and Corporations Are Not HumansVoting Rights: More Choices, More Voices— Ace Parsi's campaign website (May 7, 2026)Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.