Daily Herald Endorses Raja for Congress

The editorial board of the Daily Herald, the largest suburban newspaper in the Chicago area, has "unreservedly" endorsed Raja Krishnamoorthi for Congress, describing him as having a "breadth and depth of experience that his current challenger cannot match."

The Daily Herald endorsement makes it a clean sweep of Chicago-area newspaper endorsements for Krishnamoorthi following the endorsements earlier this week from the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.

In its editorial, the Daily Herald praised Raja's running of "two high-tech companies" and his "boosterism of solar energy."

The newspaper added that Krishnamoorthi "speaks passionately and knowledgeably on a variety of issues but at the same time is approachable and genial."

Click here to read the full endorsement of Raja for Congress by the Daily Herald: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161014/news/161019354/

The son of immigrants, Raja grew up in Illinois. After college and law school, he became issues director for Barack Obama’s successful U.S. Senate campaign. He also served as a founding prosecutor in Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s anti-corruption unit.

A lifelong progressive, Raja is running for Congress to stand up for working families and grow and strengthen the middle class.

A small business leader, Raja Krishnamoorthi currently serves as president of Sivananthan Labs and Episolar, Inc., small businesses that sell products in the national security and renewable energy industries. He is a co-founder of InSPIRE, a non-profit organization that provides training to Illinois students and veterans in solar technology, and was formerly Vice-Chairman of the Illinois Innovation Council, whose mission is to promote innovative technologies that support economic growth and job creation in Illinois. Raja resides in Schaumburg with his wife, Priya, and their three children.