Dillon Launches State Senate Campaign from Katonah

Joe Dillon announced his candidacy for the 37th District State Senate seat yesterday in Katonah and Yonkers.

He is running against longtime incumbent George Latimer.

“I pledge to Westchester voters that I will honor the public trust and take on the entrenched interests, fighting every day for our district, not as a Republican, Democrat or Independent, but as a citizen public servant,” Dillon said on his Facebook page.

A Georgetown and Columbia graduate, Dillon has experience in both the public and private sector.

He is a small business owner who has worked with emerging markets around the world as well as the World Trade Organization. Dillon is a former Treasury Department official who has also worked at Visa and American International Group and as an independent consultant.

The Dillon campaign says it will focus on overhauling education, making New York economically competitive and cleaning up the most corrupt state capitol in America. Dillon lives in Yonkers with his wife Rachel and their three sons, Charlie, Hugh and William.

The bizarrely drawn 37th District runs from Katonah down most of the east side of Westchester County and then west to Yonkers. It includes part or all of Bedford, New Castle, North Castle, Harrison, Port Chester, Rye, Mamaroneck, New Rochelle, White Plains, Scarsdale and Yonkers.