Is Roger Marshall Trying To Lose In Kansas?

"Lawyers for a Kansas Republican U.S. senator running for reelection sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former patients."
Is Roger Marshall Trying To Lose In Kansas?
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By Ed Scarce — October 1, 2026

I don't know about you, but threatening to sue your opponent over a campaign ad doesn't seem like the smartest idea to try and make the story go away. Roger Marshall is a horrible politician and an even worse human being.

Source: Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Lawyers for a Kansas Republican U.S. senator running for reelection sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former patients.

The lawyers for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, said in a Monday letter that the Rev. Adam Hamilton’s campaign had published and distributed ads about Marshall’s medical debt collection practices that were “defamatory.”

The ad begins with Meischa Zimmerman, who said she was arrested while eight months pregnant for missing a $50 payment to Marshall. She was paying roughly $50 a month to account for 18% interest on nearly $3,600 in total debt, according to court records.

The woman was one of more than 700 patients who Marshall sued while a practicing physician in Great Bend, according to reporting by the New York Times.

“The unmistakable message to a reasonable viewer is that Senator Marshall caused a pregnant patient to be arrested and jailed for missing a single $50 payment. That message is false in every material respect,” the letter said.

The Hamilton campaign’s ad had been viewed more than one million times on X.

Marshall's move is campaign malpractice.

He doesn't want people to see the ad, by making people want to see the ad.

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