Koch brothers are using disaproval of obamacare and faith based messaging to win over latinos - Opposition to the President s health care reform may be LIBRE s signature issue, but it isn t their only one. John Mendez, an Evangelical minister who serves as LIBRE s Director of Faith Initiatives told ThinkProgress that it s just one piece of their free market message. His job, he explained, is to put that message "in a theological context."

The Koch brothers, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and some of the nation's largest power companies have backed efforts in recent months to roll back state policies that favor green energy. The conservative luminaries have pushed campaigns in Kansas, North Carolina and Arizona, with the battle rapidly spreading to other states.

Petroleum coke is a high-carbon, high-sulfur byproduct of Canadian tar sands that are shipped from Alberta to the U.S. to be refined and is rapidly becoming a cause for concern in Chicago. "It's growing by leaps and bounds," Southeast Environmental Task Force member Tom Shepherd, told Midwest Energy News. "It's coming at a breathtaking rate." The pet coke is owned by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch whose operations drew similar outrage from residents and elected officials in Detroit earlier this year.