[3] In early August 1912, while serving as county treasurer, Kositzky started, and reportedly won, a fight with Commissioner E. G. Patterson in the halls of the courthouse.

[4][5] E. S. Pierce, an eyewitness to the altercation, filed a complaint a few days later, charging Kositzky with assault and battery.

[6] According to the Washburn Leader, the fight may have had something to do with Kositzky discovering that E. G. Patterson and Alexander McKenzie were receiving suspicious tax breaks.

[2] Kositzky defeated incumbent Carl O. Jorgenson in the Republican Primary in June,[8] and then he won the general election in November by more than 55,000 votes.

Kositzky, along with William Langer (Attorney General) and Thomas Hall (Secretary of State), openly denounced and defected from the NPL.

[11][3] In the fall of 1919, Kositzky and other opponents of the NPL formed the Citizens Economy League and began publishing a vicious anti-NPL magazine called The Red Flame.

[12][13][11] For their defection, the NPL labeled Kositzky, Langer, and Hall as traitors, and the NPL-controlled state legislature would retaliate by slashing the appropriations of their respective departments.

They used the books, which they deemed to be radical and socialist, to their advantage by publicly challenging and smearing the NPL and the Board of Administration.

They claimed the NPL was using the Board of Administration, and subsequently the state library, to circulate radical books to schools and children.

A. Liederbach confronted Kositzky in the halls of the Capitol, which reportedly resulted in a fist fight between the two men.