Candidate, United States House of Representatives, District 2, 2014

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Certified Public Accountant

Attorney and Managing Partner, Lewis, Glasser, Casey & Rollins Professional Limited Liability Company

Team Leader/Volunteer, Project Hope

Reason for Seeking Public Office:

I am Nick Casey and I am running for Congress to stand up for West Virginia. Our federal government needs to cut waste, break the gridlock in Congress, and refocus its priorities. If we stop waste and break the gridlock, Washington has enough money to make government more effective. It is long past time that we begin to invest more into our future. Our roads, bridges, and essential infrastructure are crumbling, we do not have a national energy policy, and we desperately need more good jobs for our people.

My campaign will focus on energy, infrastructure and the jobs they generate. Jobs repairing and expanding our roads, bridges, internet coverage, and essential infrastructure will help our entire economy grow. Right now in the Second Congressional District we have partially-finished projects. I'm talking about Route 35, Corridor H, Route 9 and other similar projects. Each of these are more than halfway finished and the remaining segments are already designed. Let's finish these critical projects now, not in 20 or 30 years.

West Virginia has the energy America needs to make us a more independent and prosperous nation. We have the coal, gas, wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal that our country needs. Washington however does not have an energy plan. We need a plan to use our energy resources as cleanly and efficiently as possible. As a nation, switching trucks and cars from foreign oil to West Virginia natural gas is an obvious opportunity. Vehicles run cleaner, cheaper and we keep money here at home while creating good paying jobs.

I practice law and I have an accounting background and I know our government has the money. We just need to aggressively squeeze waste and fraud out of our system and adjust our spending priorities to spend on what counts. When I help with accounting at my church, we have a balanced budget. When we need money to pay bills, we cannot just raise the offering levels, we have to find ways to save and live within our budget. If my church can do it, our government can and must do it too.

There is no doubt we have challenges in Washington, but with challenges come opportunities. I am running for Congress to work together with Democrats, Republicans, Independents, business and labor and all Americans to put America back on the path to prosperity. I will work for sound budgets free from waste and use the savings to invest in roads, bridges and essential infrastructure. I will push to develop an energy plan and create jobs.

I'm running for Congress to be a problem-solver. West Virginians want their leaders to get past the gridlock and partisanship and get things done. I pledge to you that I will work across the aisle and sit down with all sides on every issue and work to resolve them. People cannot agree on everything but I will work to find common the ground where we can agree. At my announcement at the State Capitol, I was joined by business people, workers, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. I am proud I already have a broad coalition of bipartisan support.

For over 37 years I have worked together with another person through everything in life, the love of my life, my wife Mary Frances. We are the proud parents of two children; Erin and Anthony, who thankfully both live and work in West Virginia.

My family and your family represent the most important priority for me in Washington. I want our children and grand children to have the opportunity to stay and work in West Virginia and raise their own families in our great State.