Hypocritical, Koch-Backed ALEC Goes Crazy For Anti-Choice Extremist

July 24, 2015

If it’s Koch brothers, it’s hypocrisy.

So, no surprise that though the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) — the Kochs’ lobbying network vehicle for advancing their legislative goals at the state level — claims not to have a social agenda, it’s members clearly do — and it’s an extremely conservative, extremely anti-choice agenda at that. And given they’re Koch-funded, you’ve got to assume that — despite their claims of libertarian agnosticism — the hypocritical Kochs feel the same way.

Daniel Daleiden, an anti-choice extremist who runs the shady, anti-choice Center for Medical Progress, made an appearance at ALEC’s annual conference, and according to The Guardian, was received “as a conquering hero”:

Alec is a network which matches state legislators – overwhelmingly Republican – with major US corporations. It facilitates meetings behind closed doors and drafts business-friendly bills which often become law. The focus is usually economic but Daleiden’s videos have electrified the pro-life movement whose members also attend Alec events.

The Guardian continued

Activists and lawmakers gathered in San Diego for their annual conference mobbed Daleiden and queued to have their picture taken with him, applauding him for injecting powerful momentum into the anti-abortion movement.

“You’re a celebrity,” grinned Daniel McConchie, vice-president of government affairs for the advocacy group Americans United for Life (AUL), as Daleiden posed for a fan’s selfie.

More evidence? Addressing the ALEC conference yesterday, Mike Huckabee — yes, the same Mike Huckabee who today compared Planned Parenthood to the Benghazi attacks — fed off the crowd’s hungry, right-wing social conservatism, and had a huge applause line calling for defunding Planned Parenthood.
  
Koch, ALEC — it’s all the same: they aren’t the pro-choice libertarians they claim to be — they’re anti-choice hypocrites.

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