Did Someone Dig up Major Dirt on Comrade Chris Kannaday?
One of the bills in last sessions GOP Platform Index was a bill that closed down a well functioning and much needed veterans center in Talihina in favor of building a newer center in Sallisaw. The author of that wasteful bill was none other than Comrade Kannaday, AKA Chris Kannady the notorious terrorist defending former U.S. Marine turned state rep/political whore.
But last week HB 1149 passed committee and would repeal that legislation passed last year that would shut down the near 100 year old center and spend $100 million to re build a center at Sallisaw. Now Sallisaw is well deserving but it is also twenty miles from the Arkansas border, forcing patients and families to travel much further for care. Another notorious member of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell caucus named Josh West voted against the bill.
What was interesting was finding out that Comrade Kannady grew up near Talihina and after leading the fight to close down the veterans center now Comrade Kannady is on the other side. Last year Kannady argued that the building is beyond repair and the need to grab $65 million in federal funds meant moving the center.
The most likely scenario is that given Kannady grew up down there some good old boys recalled some stories from when Kannady grew up. Might be the often quite common story around the state of an FFA camp out gone wrong with a heifer and a future politician involved or salacious details of Kannady's younger misdeeds or perhaps a girl or boy coming forward from the past. No one is talking about the reversal of Comrade Kannady on the issue but something ugly is likely to be behind it, pardon the pun.
