Conservative Punk

Nick Rizzuto, a publicist for KROCK, a New York City radio station,^[2] created the website partially in response to the left-liberal group Punkvoter, which was created by NOFX lead singer Fat Mike (aka Mike Burkett).^[3] The Conservative Punk website received significant press coverage during the 2004 presidential election.

An early contributor to the site was Dave Smally of the band Down by Law.^[4] The site also received contributions from talk radio personality Andrew Wilkow and former Misfits singer and Gotham Road frontman Michale Graves.^[3] Dorian Lynskey [Wikidata] of The Guardian wrote about Rizzuto: "To his critics he's a crank bringing punk's good name into disrepute – but to his supporters he's the fearless voice of a formerly silent minority."^[1]

In early 2010, Nick Rizzuto, without notice, stopped paying the hosting fees for Conservativepunk.com, causing the website and discussion forum to become inaccessible. Longtime members and regular posters created a replacement site, ConPunk.com, in order to maintain the community. However, that site went offline in May 2013, in favor of a Facebook group; as of 2014, the Facebook group had also closed.^{[citation needed]}