Ken Cannon, fringe Kansas gubernatorial candidate, will be tried for making death threat

Oh, snap. Greg Thoman learned that trash talking Reform Party gubernatorial candidate Ken Cannon is not smart. At an April Tea Party event in Salina, Kansas, Cannon allegedly threatened to kill Thoman after he took a cheap shot at Cannon’s dead son.

Thoman told a judge on Friday that Cannon confronted him at the event, and began yelling and insulting him. The Salina Journal reports that Thoman’s friend Eldon Wisdom testified: “It started out aggressive and abrasive, and it escalated.” But the death threat didn’t come until Thoman brought up Cannon’s dead son. That’s just ugly.