exception when running state.high over salt-ssh

[Ch3LL]

Description of Issue/Question

When running state.high over salt-ssh I receive the following error: An Exception occurred while executing state.high: 'function' object has no attribute 'iteritems'

Setup

1. (1) salt-ssh master (1) host without salt setup in roster

Steps to Reproduce Issue

1. run state.high command which was copied directly from the docs:

root@ubuntu:~# salt-ssh '*' state.high '{"vim": {"pkg": ["installed"]}}'
ch3ll-ssh-test:
    An Exception occurred while executing state.high: 'function' object has no attribute 'iteritems'
ch3ll-ssh-test2:
    An Exception occurred while executing state.high: 'function' object has no attribute 'iteritems'

This command works when not run over salt-ssh:

root@ubuntu:~# salt '*' state.high '{"vim": {"pkg": ["installed"]}}'

ubuntu.members.linode.com:
    ----------
    pkg_|-vim_|-vim_|-installed:
        ----------
        __run_num__:
            0
        changes:
            ----------
            vim:
                ----------
                new:
                    2:7.4.052-1ubuntu3
                old:
        comment:
            The following packages were installed/updated: vim
        duration:
            247468.891
        name:
            vim
        result:
            True
        start_time:
            22:50:47.379741

Versions Report

root@ubuntu:~# salt-ssh --versions-report
Salt Version:
           Salt: 2015.8.11

Dependency Versions:
         Jinja2: 2.7.2
       M2Crypto: 0.21.1
           Mako: Not Installed
         PyYAML: 3.10
          PyZMQ: 14.0.1
         Python: 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
           RAET: Not Installed
        Tornado: 4.4
            ZMQ: 4.0.4
           cffi: Not Installed
       cherrypy: Not Installed
       dateutil: Not Installed
          gitdb: Not Installed
      gitpython: Not Installed
          ioflo: Not Installed
        libgit2: Not Installed
        libnacl: Not Installed
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
 msgpack-python: 0.3.0
   mysql-python: Not Installed
      pycparser: Not Installed
       pycrypto: 2.6.1
         pygit2: Not Installed
   python-gnupg: Not Installed
          smmap: Not Installed
        timelib: Not Installed

System Versions:
           dist: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
        machine: x86_64
        release: 4.5.5-x86_64-linode69
         system: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty