Ahsan Parsi

[{"question": "Ballotpedia survey responses", "answer_html": "<p>See also: <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a></p>\n<div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-10 col-md-6 col-xs-offset-1 col-md-offset-3\"><p><a href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\"><img align=\"middle\" alt=\"Candidate Connection\" src=\"https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/8/88/Candidate_Connection_Logo.png\" width=\"90%\"/></a></p></div></div>\n<p>Ace Parsi completed <a href=\"/Ballotpedia%27s_Candidate_Connection\">Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection</a> survey in 2026. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Parsi's responses.</p>\n<p><span class=\"expand-all\">Expand all</span> | <span class=\"collapse-all\">Collapse all</span></p>\n<div aria-multiselectable=\"true\" class=\"panel-group\" id=\"accordion\" role=\"tablist\"><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-bio-389246-2026-02-03\" id=\"heading-bio-389246-2026-02-03\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-bio-389246-2026-02-03\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-bio-389246-2026-02-03\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWho are you? Tell us about yourself.\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading-bio-389246-2026-02-03\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-bio-389246-2026-02-03\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tMy 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.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-389246-2026-02-03\" id=\"heading-key-message-389246-2026-02-03\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse-key-message-389246-2026-02-03\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse-key-message-389246-2026-02-03\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tPlease 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?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading-key-message-389246-2026-02-03\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse-key-message-389246-2026-02-03\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><ul><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul></span></div></div></div></div><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-389246-2026-02-03\" id=\"heading1-389246-2026-02-03\" role=\"tab\"><p class=\"panel-title\" style=\"font-size: 14px;font-weight: 600;\"><a aria-controls=\"collapse1-389246-2026-02-03\" aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"collapsed\" data-parent=\"#accordion\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" href=\"#collapse1-389246-2026-02-03\" role=\"button\"><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right pull-right\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-down pull-right\"></i>\t\t\t\tWhat areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?\t\t\t</a></p></div><div aria-labelledby=\"heading1-389246-2026-02-03\" class=\"panel-collapse collapse\" id=\"collapse1-389246-2026-02-03\" role=\"tabpanel\"><div class=\"panel-body\" style=\"max-height: 500px; overflow-y: scroll;\"><div class=\"answers-container\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\t\t\t\tAffordability 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.\t\t\t</span></div></div></div></div></div>\n<div class=\"small\" data-nosnippet=\"\"><p><i><b>Note:</b> Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.</i></p></div>\n<div><div style=\"margin-bottom:1.5rem\"><h4>Campaign website</h4><p>Parsi's campaign website stated the following:</p><div style=\"max-height:400px;overflow-y:auto;border:1px solid #ccc;padding:10px;margin:20px\"><blockquote style=\"margin:0px\"><p><br/></p><p>AFFORDABILITY</p><p>Making sure West Virginians can afford to live, work, and stay.</p><p><br/></p><p>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.</p><p><br/></p><ul><li>2-for-1 Community Investment Plan</li><li>Buying the Stuff You Need to Live</li><li>Infrastructure That Makes Communities Viable</li></ul><p><br/></p><p>CARE</p><p>Caring for our people. Caring for our land.</p><p><br/></p><p>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.</p><p><br/></p><ul><li>Treating Addiction</li><li>Caring for Care Workers</li><li>Caring for our Wild and Wonderful Land</li></ul><p><br/></p><p>EMPOWERMENT</p><p>Montani Semper Liberi. Mountaineers are always free.</p><p><br/></p><p>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.</p><p><br/></p><ul><li>Transparent Government: Money Out, People In</li><li>Community Power: Your Neighborhood, Your Choice</li><li>Worker Power: The Right to Organize</li><li>Humans Have Rights and Corporations Are Not Humans</li><li>Voting Rights: More Choices, More Voices</li></ul></blockquote><div style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 0.9em; color: #555; margin-top: 0.5em;\"><p style=\"font-size:0.9em;color:#555\">— Ace Parsi's <a href=\"https://www.aceforcongress.com/aceplatform\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">campaign website</a> (May 7, 2026)</p></div></div></div><div style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0.5em;\"><i>Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.</i></div></div>", "answer_text": "See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection\n\nAce Parsi completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Parsi's responses.\nExpand all | Collapse all\nWho 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.\nNote: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.\nCampaign website Parsi's campaign website stated the following: AFFORDABILITY Making 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 Plan Buying the Stuff You Need to Live Infrastructure That Makes Communities Viable CARE Caring 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 Addiction Caring for Care Workers Caring for our Wild and Wonderful Land EMPOWERMENT Montani 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 In Community Power: Your Neighborhood, Your Choice Worker Power: The Right to Organize Humans Have Rights and Corporations Are Not Humans Voting 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."}]