My name is Mark Caserta, and I am a candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates, seeking to represent the people of Wayne County, West Virginia. I am asking for your support because I believe our community deserves honest, common-sense representation grounded in enduring values—not passing political trends.
I believe in West Virginians. I was born and raised here, have lived here my entire life, and this state is my home. The people of West Virginia—especially the families of Wayne County—have shaped who I am, my values, and my commitment to service. I would be honored to represent Wayne County to the very best of my ability, with humility, diligence, and with God’s guidance.
I have spent my entire professional life as a businessman, focused on training and developing others to be the very best they can be. I know what it means to build teams, solve problems, and help people succeed. As a business owner, I have also carried the responsibility of meeting a payroll, balancing budgets, and making decisions that directly affect the lives of others. That experience has taught me accountability, discipline, and the importance of practical, results-driven leadership.
I am a Christian and a conservative, and I strive to live by Christian principles such as faith, integrity, personal responsibility, respect for life, and service to others. These values guide how I view leadership and public service.
I believe strongly that the United States is a Republic, governed by a Constitution that protects our freedoms, and that we use a democratic process to elect representatives. Those representatives are meant to serve the people—not impose personal ideology, political fashion, or distant agendas that do not reflect the will or values of the community.
I am proudly pro-life, believing that every human life has value and deserves protection. I am a strong supporter of the First Amendment, which safeguards our freedom of speech and religious liberty, and the Second Amendment, which affirms the right of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves and their families.
Like many of you, I am concerned by policies in recent years that prioritize ideology over results—policies often labeled “woke,” but which have too often led to division, higher costs, weakened public safety, and less accountability. I believe our community is ready to move forward with practical solutions, not political experiments.
My commitment is simple: to listen, to represent, and to act with common sense and moral clarity. I will work for policies that strengthen families, respect faith, protect freedom, and ensure that government serves the people—not the other way around.
I ask for your prayers, your consideration, and your vote. Together, we can restore responsible leadership that reflects the values of Wayne County, the strength of West Virginians, and the principles that make our nation strong.
Respectfully,
Mark A. Caserta Candidate for West Virginia House of Delegates Wayne County, West Virginia “Serving with Faith, Integrity, and Common Sense”
Our nation is at a troublesome crossroads. You must choose the path for the future.
There has never been a time in our nation’s history when there has been any clearer distinction between good and evil. The domestic unrest in our cities transcends politics. Although the political pulpit, along with the incessant news cycle arguably help fuel the violence and spark emotion, the root cause is much more sinister and heinous with the sole intent of stealing, killing, and destroying all that is good and perfect among us.
News media has abandoned the true journalistic mission of “informing” people of factual content in lieu of “influencing” them as to how they should feel about content, factual or otherwise. The liberal media of our times will never allow truth to stand in the way of a good story or an opportunity to strike an emotional hotspot to garner support for their cause.
Understand, “progress” and “progressivism” are not one in the same! Progress in society, in terms of medical advances, scientific learnings and new and innovative ways of living life is wonderful and should be embraced by all. But a progressive ideology is something entirely different.
Progressivism is a liberal methodology. It is a gradual diminishing of heretofore agreed upon standards of ethics and principles by which to live, allowing a new matrix of morality void of any moral compass.
Understand, we didn’t see audacious behavior rise around us overnight. It was accomplished by a tenacious, consistent “desensitizing” of society, frankly, beginning in the classroom. While we have some wonderful, caring teachers in many classrooms, we also have some incredibly evil leadership willing to compromise and mold a child’s mind to accept concepts and ideas that would never have been acceptable otherwise.
In what world would be ever have considered allowing a man to compete in a women’s sport by simply having surgery to remove his genitalia. The physiology and genealogy remain that of a man but is allowed to compete against a woman simply because they no longer identify as a man.
It if fully the right of any individual to live their life as they choose. That is God given and a constitutionally supported right. But that right to choose must not adversely impact the rights of others.
Here’s the point. We didn’t get here overnight. Years ago, liberals began removing any semblance of steadfast rules by which to live our lives. Regardless of you accepting it or not, God’s Word has been the foundation for the growth and development of all mankind. Simply disagreeing with this precept is your choice, but a very wrong one.
So, the very first objective of the progressive movement had to be to remove the Bible from the classroom! They did this by inaccurately leveraging the 1st amendment to the Constitution or the establishment clause, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” Historically, the most mis-interpreted portion of our constitution and has been the foundation of the decision to keep all things having to do with Christianity, to include the Bible, out of our classrooms.
Removing the parameters of God’s Word from the classroom allowed the infusion of materials under the guise of being “open-minded” to progress in society and varying individual’s convictions. In fact, moral convictions began to take on an entirely different appearance and tenacity in varying aspects of the world in which we live.
Again, we all have the right to choose how we live. No disagreement there. That is a God-given right. We do not have the right to infringe upon the rights of others. Unfortunately, the liberal stance is that if someone doesn’t fully support their cause or passion it means they are not inclusive and must have hate in their heart toward them.
That’s simply an intellectually dishonest view. We can love people and accept them without supporting the advancement or promotion of their cause or allowing them to suppress my right to the very same acceptance.
But liberal progressives have made this an emotional battle. They’ve weaponized media, politics and even religion and created an environment so volatile that our greatest threat is no longer foreign – it is the enemy within.
Now, you may be sitting on the sidelines, resolute to the fact that you can’t change it. And you may not have the bully pulpit to enact change to a high degree. But you can certainly impact your circle. You influence those around you every single day.
How are you choosing to use that influence? Are you choosing to model apathy to the evil around you or are you displaying empathy and ministering to others and influencing positive change?
The choice has never been clearer. The left has embraced the antithesis of all things which have made the United States a sovereign, prosperous nation, respected and revered by the world. The believe the government knows best and will do anything to always wield the power to control your life. They believe they have the right to take the money that you worked hard to earn and share it with those who have not earned it at all. They believe they should have the power to “make” all men equal. They will distribute success. And in return for their handouts, all they ask is for your vote to keep them in power.
Conservatives promulgate a love of country and all our Founding Fathers envisioned for America. They believe we live in a Republic; a government ran by the people through elected officials who represent their best interests. They believe the people know best and should have the power and ability to work hard and build a prosperous life. They believe equality stems from everyone having the same opportunities in our country to earn the American dream rather than having it handed to them in return for a vote. They believe God “created” all men equal. They must earn success. All they ask is that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The mission is clear. The choice is yours. Do you stand for freedom and Democracy? Or do you stand with the government controlling your life and the lives of your children and grandchildren?
Make your mark in history by voting in November.
Mark Caserta has been an op-ed columnist since 2000.
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