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Ilya Breyman

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Ilya Breyman
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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 8, 2022

Education

High school

Council Rock High School

Bachelor's

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, 2006

Graduate

University of Pennsylvania, 2017

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Jewish
Profession
Entrepreneur
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Ilya Breyman (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent District 178. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Breyman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Ilya Breyman was born in Leningrad, USSR. He earned a high school diploma from Council Rock High School, a bachelor's degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 2006, a graduate degree from Georgetown University in 2007, and a graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. His career experience includes working as an entrepreneur.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 178

Kristin Marcell defeated Ilya Breyman in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 178 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Kristin Marcell
Kristin Marcell (R)
 
56.6
 
20,075
Image of Ilya Breyman
Ilya Breyman (D) Candidate Connection
 
43.4
 
15,410

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 35,485
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 178

Ilya Breyman advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 178 on May 17, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Ilya Breyman
Ilya Breyman Candidate Connection
 
99.6
 
6,724
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.4
 
30

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2

Total votes: 6,754
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 178

Kristin Marcell advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 178 on May 17, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Kristin Marcell
Kristin Marcell
 
98.8
 
9,178
 Other/Write-in votes
 
1.2
 
114

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2

Total votes: 9,292
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Campaign themes

2022

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Candidate Connection

Ilya Breyman completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Breyman'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 am a first-generation immigrant, an education technology entrepreneur, and a parent of two young children. I was born in what was then Leningrad and immigrated to the US with my family in 2001, when I was 16. I graduated from Council Rock High School and then received my bachelor’s and master’s from Georgetown University. I worked internationally in HR consulting and corporate venture capital before co-founding my own startup.
  • We must start mending divisions caused by political polarization and partisan bickering.
  • We must invest in people by improving our education system, leveling the playing field for Pennsylvanian workers and small businesses, and ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to realize their American dream
  • We must protect the rights that previous generations of Americans have fought for with their blood, sweat, and tears
Education quality and access

Smart community-driven investments in infrastructure
Election reform - ending partisan gerrymandering, repealing closed primaries and introducing ranked choice voting
Child care access and affordability

Supporting small business and innovation

My mother. She came to the US when she was 39, bringing me and my sister in search of the American dream. She spoke very little English and worked as a substitute teacher in the mornings and afternoons and as a child care assistant in the evenings so that we could afford to live in one of the best school districts in PA. While working full time she started her own early education business at home which grew into two early education centers serving 500 children. Her hard work, enterprising spirit, and desire to serve the community are incredibly inspiring and epitomize the Promise of America that attracted so many immigrants before her and will continue to attract in the future making America truly great.
Empathy, transparency, and openness to new ideas
As an entrepreneur, I constantly have to think outside the box and look for innovative solutions. I am not afraid of hard problems because doing what’s right is never easy. I am open-minded and am always looking for opportunities to collaborate and pursue shared goals. These qualities would allow me to break outside of the political binary and work with anyone who is willing to find solutions that benefit all Pennsylvanians
The core responsibilities are to ensure that Pennsylvanians’ hard-earned tax dollars are spent in the most responsible way and to serve as a liaison between my constituents and state government agencies in matters that are important to them.
I would like to be remembered as someone who helped promote unity and bridge the partisan divide.
The collapse of the Soviet Union. I was 6 and I was still living in Leningrad. It was a moment of hope when I felt that freedom and democracy might endure after the fall of authoritarianism
My first job was when I just started college. One of the upperclassmen in the Jewish Student Association introduced me to the college Rabbi who was looking for a secretary. I did the job for a year as a freshman, was paid $6.5/hour and had the opportunity to learn from one of the wisest people I've known - Rabbi Harold White - the first Jewish chaplain at a Jesuit university in the US
The Three Musketeers by Dumas. Ever since I was a kid, I loved reading historical fiction and non-fiction and I always loved the Dumas’ trilogy because its characters are portrayed as regular human beings with all their flaws, but at the same time they show how one can love, be patriotic, courageous, and do what is right no matter the cost.
Jamie Fraser from Outlander - he can be strong and vulnerable at the same time, he is open-minded, loyal to his family and to his country, and ready to sacrifice so much to fight for what is right
Believer by Imagine Dragons
I came to the US when I was 16 and I still have an accent.
They should collaborate in the best interest of all Pennsylvanians setting aside their political agenda when decisions have to be made.
Our greatest challenge will be overcoming the partisan divide and deep-rooted distrust in our institutions and career politicians, who would need to earn back people’s respect and trust by putting aside their differences and working together to benefit all people in the Commonwealth
Unicameral state legislatures cost less to taxpayers and can pass bills more rapidly. It’s also much more difficult for them to avoid responsibility because passing the buck to the upper or lower chamber isn’t an option. It does guarantee that, in a two-party system one party will always control the legislature, whereas in a bicameral system it is possible that the two chambers can be controlled by different parties which forces them to find common ground.
It can be useful because this way state legislators don’t need to learn how the government works on the job. At the same time, those state legislators who have experience in government or politics may have too many conflicting ties and relationships which would limit their ability to represent their constituents. Having real life experience and knowing their constituents’ needs is much more important, in my opinion, than having experience in government or politics
It’s not just beneficial - it’s mandatory. Lawmaking is a collaborative effort and the best laws take multiple points of view into consideration. Other legislators have different personal experiences and different constituencies and can offer a different perspective. These relationships would allow me to learn from them and become a better legislator myself. They would also allow me to overcome the partisan gridlock that, unfortunately, many legislators find themselves in
I believe that politicians should never be in charge of the process of redistricting. If one person, one vote to actually be operable for all Americans, we must remove the ability of any majority party to rig an election in its favor. When politicians choose the boundaries of political districts, they are, in effect, choosing their voters, rather than the voters choosing them. I believe that the best way to accomplish this is by placing the powers of the decennial redistricting process in the hands of non-partisan commissions of experts in the field, with their work being appealable only to the courts, and not “correctable” by the legislature, no matter the size of the their majority. Partisan elected politicians have shown time and again that if you give them an inch, they will take a mile, and if a redistricting commission allows for the legislature to place its thumbs on the scales, the legislature will, almost invariably, do exactly that, eventually to such an extent that the redistricting commissions work becomes functionally meaningless.

I believe that the act of partisan gerrymandering is an existential threat to the survival of the Republic. For any democracy, it is important that citizens feel that their government is actually responsive to their interests—and not the interests of career politicians willing to use any tool at their disposal to maintain their positions of power in perpetuity.
Children and Youth

Education
Environmental Resources and Energy
Local Government

Appropriations
Franklin Kury who was ahead of his times when he introduced the constitutional amendment guaranteeing that all Pennsylvanians have the right to enjoy clean air and water
Maybe. But I would like to earn that privilege by serving my constituents as their State Representative first
It should be able to provide checks and balances to any executive powers to prevent their abuse.
Absolutely

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    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 28, 2022


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