Bram Kleppner
2025 - Present
2027
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Bram Kleppner (Democratic Party) is a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, representing Chittenden-13 District. He assumed office on January 8, 2025. His current term ends on January 6, 2027.
Kleppner (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Vermont House of Representatives to represent Chittenden-13 District. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Kleppner completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Bram Kleppner was born in Washington, D.C.. He earned a high school diploma from Springbrook High School, a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College in 1987, and a graduate degree from the University of Vermont in 1999. His career experience includes working as a CEO and international business developer for Ben & Jerry's. Kleppner has been affiliated with Green Mtn Bike Club.[1]
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Elections
2024
See also: Vermont House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 13 District (2 seats)
Incumbent Tiff Bluemle and Bram Kleppner won election in the general election for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 13 District on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tiff Bluemle (D) | 53.1 | 3,801 |
| ✔ |  | Bram Kleppner (D)  | 46.0 | 3,296 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.9 | 66 | ||
| Total votes: 7,163 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 13 District (2 seats)
Incumbent Tiff Bluemle and Bram Kleppner defeated Dale Azaria and Larry Lewack in the Democratic primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 13 District on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tiff Bluemle | 41.6 | 1,118 |
| ✔ | | Bram Kleppner | 25.2 | 677 |
| Dale Azaria | 24.3 | 652 | ||
 | Larry Lewack | 8.8 | 235 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 3 | ||
| Total votes: 2,685 | |||
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Endorsements
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Pledges
Kleppner signed the following pledges.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Bram Kleppner completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kleppner's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- I think my combination of having led a manufacturing business through the Great Recession and the pandemic, combined with my policy experience across health car, taxation, and climate, will be helpful in the legislature as we address the several big, complicated challenges ahead of us.
- The lack of affordable housing is driving multiple problems: homelessness, young people leaving the state, business and organizations large and small being unable to hire people as those people can't find a place to live, empty nesters who would like to downsize unable to find a place to downsize into. Affordable housing is at the top of my priority list.
- Health care costs are another driver of multiple problems: rising education costs, increased burden on businesses, fewer people with access to quality health care. It's a big, complicated problem, and we have to deal with it.
Because without it, they'd be awful!
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 15, 2024
