Dorey Houle, a Town of Monroe councilwoman and mother of five, is running to represent the newly drawn 42nd State Senate district in New York, which encompasses almost all of Orange County.
She faces Democratic State Sen. James Skoufis in the general election.
Houle spoke with The Epoch Times in a Republican campaign office in Port Jervis, New York, on Oct. 21. The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
The Epoch Times: You got elected to a four-year term at the Monroe Town Board last November. Why did you decide to run for the state senate this year?
Houle: When I was working on my education degree in college, I would hear my professors talk about how they’d love to do X, but the state said that they must do Y. So, I knew very early on that the biggest impact that I wanted to have would be at the state level, and that was where I wanted to be….