Jon Chapin (Tippecanoe County Council, District 2, Indiana, candidate 2026)
Jon Chapin (Republican Party) is running for election for Tippecanoe County Council, District 2 in Indiana. Chapin is on the ballot in the Republican primary on May 5, 2026.[source]
Chapin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. Click here to read the survey answers.
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Biography
Jon Chapin provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on March 31, 2026:
- High school: Frankfort Senior High
- Other: Purdue Global, 2024
- Profession: Manufacturing
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign Facebook
Elections
Republican primary
Republican primary for Tippecanoe County Council, District 2
Jon Chapin (R) and Jody Hamilton (R) are running in the Republican primary for Tippecanoe County Council, District 2 on May 5, 2026.
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jon Chapin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Chapin's responses.
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My next two passions are Golf and Politics. I have been working on my golf game for close to 20 years now. A lot of the mental skills you develop and train in golf correlate to politics.
I was not really into politics until Trump ran for office. I was aware of some things going on, but it did not consume my time, and I certainly wouldn't engage in political conversations. But in 2015 that changed. I mostly watched his campaign because it was entertaining, but then I began learning about a lot of national and global issues. It wasn't long after that politics had me hooked. Now im at the point where I cant sit by and watch without trying to make a difference.- I think I want to begin with stating something not really local policy related. Right now the US is very divided, federally and locally. Friendships and families are torn apart because people cant allow others to have their own opinions and most can't admit when their politician of choice does something wrong, or fails to adhere to campaign promises. We must get away from that. The democratic party has been divided by moderate left and the woke. Republicans were unified until very recently. Now we are being divided by the very unpopular war with Iran. This is setting up Republicans to be slaughtered in the midterms this year. I hope the party recognizes this and puts pressure on Trump. Im a 3x Trump voter but he is losing my support.
- In regards to local politics and the position im applying for, I have several ideas I think would benefit the tax payers. First, we must identify the problems. Tippecanoe County, like many others, is experiencing a budget shortfall due to the reduced property taxes. Reducing property taxes help home owners, but the rest of the tax payers dont see any break. We have 2 options. We can raise taxes or balance the budget.
If we raise taxes to make up for this, it disproportionately hurts non-home owners. For the rest it becomes a wash and not a real tax break.
The other option is cut spending and balance the budget. Right now our county council is outsourcing that key duty to an outside firm because they are unable to do their job. - I believe we need to bring the county council out of the 90s and into the year 2026. Why should we pay our elected officials when they are incapable of doing their job to the point of spending more tax payer money for a firm to do their job. I would like to leverage new cutting edge technologies like A.I. to assist in analyzing our budget. We can use A.I. to identify waste, programs that are not consistent with the responsibilities of our government in accordance with the state's constitution, while affecting the least amount of people possible. We need rigorous oversight on how money is being given out. Meeting with the head of the boards and requiring metrics on how money has been or will be used would go a long way.
Government waste, fraud and abuse
America first actually being America first, not unelected bueracratic lobbyist dictating policies
Antiwar unless absolutely necessary
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See also
2026 Elections
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