Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) is being accused by a local baker of skipping out on a bill for nearly $700 in cookies during his last election.
The baker, Holly Thomas of Holly's Sweet Treats in Hutchinson, Kansas, posted her allegations on Facebook Thursday, complete with screenshots of an unpaid bill for $678.75.
"Do you know why I will never vote for Roger Marshall?" she wrote. "Because six years ago, when I was a brand-new small business owner, his campaign ordered cookies and treats from my bakery for his primary election watch party. And I never got paid."
"For nearly a year, I made repeated attempts to collect payment, reaching out by phone and email. I never received a return phone call, and the invoice was never paid," she said, noting that her business was just trying to get started in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and "every single dollar mattered."
"Those cookies and treats cost money to make, employees' time to prepare, and resources that my little business couldn't afford to give away," she wrote. "Six years later, I haven't forgotten. This isn't about political parties or policy disagreements. It's about my personal experience as a small business owner and the importance of honoring financial commitments. That experience is why Roger Marshall will never get my vote."
Marshall has separately been rocked by allegations that, as a practicing doctor, he used aggressive collection tactics on patients who owed trivial amounts of medical debt, suing them and even having some of them arrested.
He faces off against Democrat Adam Hamilton, a prominent pastor who is seeking to be the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Kansas since 1932.
