Senate Republican settles six-year-old campaign bill after being called out on social media

Sen.

Roger Marshall , R-Kan., paid a six-year-old campaign bill after a bakery owner called him out on social media for allegedly failing to pay for cookies and other treats ordered for a 2020 election watch party.

Holly Thomas, a bakery founder, said in an Oct.

8 Facebook post that she would never vote for Marshall because his campaign had failed to pay a $678.75 bill despite her repeated attempts to collect the money.

Thomas shared an image of the invoice and a photo that appeared to show custom cookies made for Marshall's campaign.

"Do you know why I will never vote for Roger Marshall? 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," Thomas wrote in the post.

SLEEPER SENATE RACE EMERGES AS UNEXPECTED HEADACHE FOR REPUBLICANS AHEAD OF MIDTERMS "Not only was I just starting out, but we were also in the middle of COVID, when small businesses everywhere were struggling just to keep their doors open.

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 explained.

"Six years later, I haven't forgotten.

This isn't about political parties or policy disagreements.