Marley Umensetter is a mom, community advocate, and life-long West Virginian running for House of Delegates in District 13. She grew up in Lubeck, graduated from Parkersburg South High School, and is currently working towards a degree in Veterinary Technology.Over the past few years, she's worked to bring positive change within her her community through local organization and now she's fighting to take those efforts to the state capitol where she can stand with West Virginians and stand up for West Virginia.

Prioritize Public Education

Our public schools are the only schools accessible to every single student in our state, regardless of their zip code or financial status. We need to keep public funding in our public schools, where it will benefit every student living in our state, regardless of their zip code or financial status, and provide better wages and benefits to our public school teachers.

Support
The Working-Class

To improve the quality of life in West Virginia, we must provide the resources our communities need to access safe, well-paying jobs in our state. Increase the minimum wage - nobody working 40 hours a week should be living in poverty. Ensure access to affordable childcare for every family - parents need access to affordable childcare in order to go to work.

Strengthen
Unions

Strong unions create strong communities.
Organized workers earn higher wages, have safer workplace conditions, and receive better benefits.
It’s time for West Virginia to end right-to-work legislation, which only weakens the effectiveness of the unions in our state, and enforce policies that support labor unions.

Data Centers

The last thing West Virginia needs is another exploitative industry coming into our state with no accountability measures or community oversight in place.- We don't have to sacrifice our land and water in order to create more jobs in our state.
- It's essential that we allow the affected communities to have a voice in these decisions.
- We absolutely must address the current water crisis in our state before we even consider the possibility of Data Centers coming here.

Diversify
Energy
Supply

West Virginia is the only state that still relies on coal for more than 75% of its electricity generation. We must invest in clean, renewable energy sources to protect our environment, our health, our wallets, and our workers. To protect our workers in the coal industry, it's essential that we create the framework for a just transition plan now while we still have time.

Protect
Fundamental
Rights

The super-majority controlling our state legislature has been stripping away the rights and protections for the most vulnerable people in West Virginia for years.
It’s time for us to start focusing on the issues that actually make life better for everyone in our state and restore the rights to bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom.

Community
Focused

As a candidate for state office, it's my responsibility to connect with my community and listen to the issues that matter to them. I want people to vote for me because I took the time to earn their trust and showed them that they can count on me to stand by my morals and have their best interest in mind once I'm elected.