If my anonymous conservative critics "have something to say, just say it," says conservative operative

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by: Jason Salzman

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Jonathan Lockwood of Advancing Colorado.

Advancing Colorado’s Jonathan Lockwood has this to say to conservatives who trashed him anonymously in a Oct. 26 Colorado Indpendent article: “If you have something to say, just say it.”

The Independent’s Kyle Harris reported that “few conservatives are willing to go on record about Lockwood — he’s either too powerful, or too irrelevant, or too volatile, depending on who’s talking.” Some conservatives, Harris wrote, see Lockwood “as a ‘sideshow,’ drawing attention to himself rather than the issues he’s hired to spin.”

In response, on Facebook, Lockwood wrote:

Apparently there are conservatives who are more like burglers, wearing ski-masks hiding their identity, and won’t come out and say what they want to say on the record. If you have something to say, just say it.

These political burglers who squander their donors’ money on buyig urls and losing campaigns, apparently share their opinion of me with people like Laura Chapin and Alan Franklin, people who want to see the free market burn and the Constitution trashed, which should be telling. Every single effort I’ve worked on, won.

These people want to impose their version of ‘what people are supposed to say,’ don’t follow their own rules and I think what I have learned is that if you are making a difference and making an impact and changing lives for the better, fighting for freedom, free markets and a freer society, people will trash you, make fun of you for everything from your appearance to your history and background, and make campaign jobs ending and new opportunities presenting themselves, rapidly working from a press secretary to an executive diretor, a ‘bad thing.’

“No one can figure out who those anonymous people would be,” Lookwood told me, adding that he’s gotten an “overwhelmingly encouraging response” to his Facebook post. “Nobody really believes that conservatives would say those things.”

“What I’ve been able to do is bring together people from all over the political spectrum,” he said. And that includes Republicans of all stripes, he said.

The original post did not contain Lockwood’s response.

13 thoughts on “If my anonymous conservative critics “have something to say, just say it,” says conservative operative”

Diogenesdemar says:

October 30, 2015 at 1:49 pm

As my good friend, Moderatus, has often said here, "That Jonathan Lockwood is a moron, a flaming asshole!"

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1. FrankUnderwood says:
  
  October 30, 2015 at 2:08 pm
  
  Flaming? Is he the head of the Log Cabin Republicans?
  
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  1. BlueCat says:
    
    October 30, 2015 at 2:21 pm
    
    "Flaming asshole" is a traditional insult of long standing not related to flaming in the other context.
    
    And Dio, please stop luring modster back with your teasing. It's so nice to have him gone.
    
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    1. FrankUnderwood says:
      
      October 30, 2015 at 5:10 pm
      
      Perhaps but when I saw that photo of Lockwood posing in the T-shirt with his arms in the air, the first thing to come to my mind was Richard Simmons.
      
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      1. BlueCat says:
        
        October 31, 2015 at 4:51 pm
        
        You're right. Uncanny!
        
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      2. mamajama55 says:
        
        October 31, 2015 at 6:09 pm
        
        Lockwood's (presumed) sexual preference and "gay hipster" style are his least obnoxious qualities. Lying and shilling for corporate conservatives is much more harmful. He has been an effective propagandist — the Kochs trained him well.
        
        Since he doesn't out himself one way or another, it's not up to me, you, or anyone here to out or attempt to pigeonhole him. He may be gay, bi, sexually fluid, or any number of other categories. Doesn't change the fact that he is an evil, conniving, short-sighted tool, or that we should oppose his every effort to further his paymaster's agendas.
        
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2. Moderatus says:
  
  October 30, 2015 at 2:39 pm
  
  All you're proving is that you miss me!! 🙂
  
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  1. Voyageur says:
    
    October 30, 2015 at 3:02 pm
    
    We do miss Moddy! Like we miss our carbuncles!
    
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  2. Duke Cox says:
    
    November 1, 2015 at 5:59 am
    
    How can we miss you if you keep coming back?
    
    Shoo, fly!
    
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    1. mamajama55 says:
      
      November 1, 2015 at 7:15 am
      
      Should be a country western song. Oh, wait, it already is:
      
      How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away from Mark Messina on Vimeo.
      
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      1. Duke Cox says:
        
        November 1, 2015 at 7:24 am
        
        That song was running through my head when I posted.. First heard it years ago by Dan Hiicks and his Hot Licks…Great tune..
        
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Gadfly says:

October 31, 2015 at 2:21 pm

Jonathan Lockwood always provocative & entertaining

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mamajama55 says:

November 1, 2015 at 4:50 pm

Advancing Colorado's nonprofit status is "noncompliant" because they failed to file a periodic review on 9/24/2015. From TRACER, business entity search: "The entity will become delinquent if they fail to file periodic review by 11/30/2015. "

Looks like taking care of business isn't Jonathan Lockwood's strong suit. Or his Koch funders really, really don't want their contributions traced, and are willing to risk losing their wannabe "nonprofit corporation", if necessary.

Post – election, rather than disclose donors, Advancing Colorado will probably discorporate, and reincarnate under a different name. That's my guess.

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