“Getting (my daughter) from Carroll to downtown Fort Wayne would have been logistically difficult if not impossible the five or six nights a week they expect,” Tippmann said. “My permanent, fixed residence - where I am registered to vote, where I have always voted, where I will vote, and where my driver’s license refers to, is in Perry Township.” The current occupants of the Willow Wind house are on a short-term lease, said Tippmann, adding he and his family could return to the home as soon as January. “I am in full compliance with the spirit and letter of the Indiana code,” Tippmann said.

But he and his family recently moved out of their Perry Township home on Willow Wind Trail after buying a house on Lake Avenue so one of his daughters, an aspiring professional ballerina who is too young to drive, would be closer to ballet class. Tippmann, currently an Allen County Council member, defeated incumbent James McIntosh in the May primary and will face Democrat Melissa Rinehart Nov.

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