A citizens’ petition effort to remove longtime Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler from office revisits many of the same concerns his challenger raised in this year’s Republican primary, setting up questions about whether the effort is driven by accountability concerns or political grievances.
But leaders insist their effort isn’t political revenge or an attempt to use the judicial system to undermine the will of voters, who reelected Kunzweiler to a fourth term with nearly 60 percent of the vote in June’s GOP primary.
“The petitioners are concerned citizens that have compiled these stories over time,” said Shar Agosto, attorney for the petitioners, Grand Jury Justice. “I think bringing up 11 categories will make people take it more serious – we could have put more. There are more stories. This isn’t just one group of people who are mad at him because they didn’t get their way in an election.”…