2026年10月11日 美国东部时间下午1:04 / 美国有线电视新闻网
作者：艾莉森·梅因
共和党参议员罗杰·马歇尔已于本周了结了他与堪萨斯州一家面包店的债务。2020年一场活动中，他的竞选团队订购了数百份点心，这笔账单拖欠了六年之久。
为马歇尔初选选举观察派对制作曲奇、布朗尼和纸杯蛋糕的店主霍莉·托马斯在周五的社交媒体帖文中表示，由于这名参议员拖欠了她的小企业678.75美元货款且一直未予偿还，她今年不会为这位参议员投票。目前马歇尔正面临民主党人亚当·汉密尔顿出人意料的强劲挑战。
“这与政党或政策分歧无关。这关乎我作为小企业主的个人经历，以及恪守财务承诺的重要性，”托马斯说道。“正是这段经历让我永远不会把票投给罗杰·马歇尔。”
托马斯表示，她曾多次联系对方但都没有得到回复，并指出这笔拖欠款项发生在她的生意刚刚起步、正处于新冠疫情最严重的时期。“六年过去了，我没有忘记，”她说。
马歇尔周六在社交媒体上发布了一张1300美元的付款截图，显示他已经结清了这笔五年前的饼干账单，而且多付了部分款项。
“我们完全不知道此事为何会发生，但请放心，我们一得知情况，就立刻尝试联系这家店铺致歉，并偿还了2020年的账单，还多付了一倍，”马歇尔在社交媒体上说道。
几小时后，托马斯确认她终于可以“标记该发票已结清”。
参议员罗杰·马歇尔于9月14日在堪萨斯州奥拉西的Webco制造业活动中聆听美国副总统JD·万斯发言。
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这位共和党参议员今年秋季正面临一场竞争激烈的连任竞选，选民对唐纳德·特朗普总统的强烈不满以及普遍存在的经济焦虑，使得堪萨斯州有可能近一个世纪来首次选出一名民主党参议员。《纽约时报》和锡耶纳大学最近的一项民调显示，在可能投票的选民中，马歇尔与汉密尔顿的支持率均为45%，双方持平。
就在结清面包店账单之际，马歇尔这位前妇产科医生上个月因一份报道受到批评：他曾就未付医疗债务起诉数百名患者。
《纽约时报》调查发现，他已对700多名未结清账单的患者提起诉讼，其中至少81人因未出庭而被捕。民主党人在广告中利用这一报道指责马歇尔无视民众对医疗成本的担忧。
马歇尔的一名发言人向《泰晤士报》表示，这位从业多年的医生多年来一直为患者提供治疗，无论他们是否有支付能力。
“当人们屡次不出庭时，是法官签发逮捕令，而非医生，”发言人佩顿·富勒在给该媒体的一份声明中说道。
Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall pays off 6-year-old campaign cookie bill
2026-10-11 1:04 PM ET / CNN
By Alison Main
Republican Sen. Roger Marshall settled his debts this weekend with a bakery in Kansas after a bill for hundreds of treats his campaign ordered for a 2020 event sat unpaid for six years.
Holly Thomas, the owner of the shop that made cookies, brownies and cupcakes for Marshall’s primary election watch party, said in a social media post on Friday that she will not vote for the senator in this year’s election, where he is facing an unexpectedly strong challenge from Democrat Adam Hamilton, after he failed to pay the $678.75 he owed her small business.
“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,” Thomas said. “That experience is why Roger Marshall will never get my vote.”
Thomas said she reached out several times but never heard back, noting that the lack of payment came as her business was just beginning and at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. “Six years later, I haven’t forgotten,” she said.
Marshall posted a screenshot of a payment for $1,300 on Saturday, showing that he had paid the half-a-decade-old cookie bill, and then some.
“We have absolutely no idea how this happened, but rest assured as soon as it became known to us, we immediately attempted to contact the business in order to apologize, and we have repaid the bill from 2020, double,” Marshall said on social media.
Thomas confirmed a few hours later that she can “finally mark the invoice paid.”
Senator Roger Marshall listens as US Vice President JD Vance speaks during an event at Webco Manufacturing on September 14, in Olathe, Kansas.
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The Republican senator is facing a competitive reelection race this fall, with voters’ strong disapproval of President Donald Trump and widespread economic anxiety raising the possibility that Kansas could send a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in nearly a century. A recent poll by The New York Times and Siena University showed Marshall tied with Hamilton at 45% among likely voters.
The repayment of the bakery bill come as Marshall, a former obstetrician-gynecologist, has faced criticism over a report last month that he sued hundreds of patients over unpaid medical debt.
The New York Times found that he had filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills and at least 81 of those individuals were arrested for missing court dates. Democrats have leaned on the story in ads, accusing Marshall of disregarding people’s concerns about healthcare costs.
A spokesperson for Marshall told the Times that the longtime doctor spent many years treating patients regardless of their ability to pay.
“Judges issue warrants when people repeatedly miss court dates, not doctors,” spokesperson Payton Fuller said in a statement to the outlet.
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