Raja Krishnamoorthi was a memebr of our board and rose to become Illinois' state"s  assistant  controller under Alexei Gianoulias. In 2010 when Alxei Gianoulias left the position of State Treasurer to run for the office of US Senator from the state of Illinois, he and other Demcrats including IADO encourged him to run for the office of State Treasurer. Raja ran an awesome race and almost won the Democratoc Primary. But he loast be a mere few thousand votes due to lack of name recognition.