A Kansas bakery owner said Sen. Roger Marshall’s campaign never paid for treats ordered in 2020. Holly Thomas of Holly’s Sweet Treats in Hutchinson posted on Facebook that the unpaid invoice totaled $678.75. Marshall later said on X that the campaign settled the bill and paid double.
The receipt Thomas shared listed $375 for custom sugar cookies, $75 for cupcakes, and $175 for fudge brownies. She said the order was placed for his primary election watch party. Thomas wrote that she was a brand-new small business owner at the time and that the missing payment stood out because her shop was trying to get through the Covid-19 pandemic.
She described trying for nearly a year to collect the money. Thomas said she called and emailed repeatedly, but never got a return call. “I never received a return phone call, and the invoice was never paid,” she stated.
Campaign shares receipt after owner posts about unpaid 2020 invoice
Marshall responded on X two days after Thomas’s post. He wrote, “As some folks may have seen, there was a post on social media regarding an unpaid 2020 cookie bill. 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.”
He attached a screenshot of a digital receipt. The image showed a $1,300 payment to Holly’s Sweet Treats. Marshall said the campaign reached out as soon as it learned about the outstanding invoice. Marshall has a history of walking back statements on social media, such as when he promoted Trump’s $5,000 dividend online, then hedged on it days later at a debate.
Thomas explained her decision not to support Marshall. She wrote, “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.” She added that “every single dollar mattered” while her business worked to stay open during the pandemic.
Marshall is apparently a physician, and according to The New York Times, he has filed lawsuits against hundreds of patients in a poor, rural section of Kansas over unpaid medical bills. Some of those cases led to people being jailed for amounts as small as $101. Small bakeries elsewhere have faced similar payment disputes, as a Texas bakery says a pizza company hasn’t paid for more than 30,000 crusts it ordered.
The repayment comes while Marshall is in a close race for reelection against Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton. Polls show that Marshall is currently trailing with less than a month left until Election Day.
Published: Oct 11, 2026 06:30 am