堪萨斯参议员马歇尔补上六年前“饼干账单”：678美元欠款翻倍偿还
堪萨斯州共和党联邦参议员罗杰·马歇尔这个周末还清了一笔拖欠六年的烘焙账单。面包店老板霍莉·托马斯10月9日在社交媒体发文称，马歇尔2020年竞选团队为初选之夜派对订购的曲奇、布朗尼和纸杯蛋糕共欠款678.75美元，她多次联系对方却石沉大海。“这与党派或政策无关，”托马斯写道，“而是作为小企业主，信守财务承诺很重要。”她还表示，今年不会投票给马歇尔。
马歇尔10月10日在社交媒体晒出1300美元的付款截图，称“一得知此事，我们立即联系商家道歉，并双倍偿还了2020年的账单”。托马斯随后确认“终于可以把这张发票标记为已付”。
这起风波正值马歇尔面临意外激烈的连任选战：《纽约时报》与锡耶纳学院的最新民调显示，他与民主党挑战者亚当·汉密尔顿以45%比45%打成平手，堪萨斯州可能近百年来首次选出民主党参议员。马歇尔上月还因被曝起诉700多名拖欠医疗费的患者而备受批评。
信息来源：CNN https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/11/politics/roger-marshall-2020-cookie-bill-kansas
Kansas Sen. Marshall Pays Six-Year-Old "Cookie Bill": $678 Debt Repaid Double
Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas this weekend settled a baking bill that had gone unpaid for six years. Bakery owner Holly Thomas posted on social media Oct. 9 that Marshall's 2020 campaign owed $678.75 for cookies, brownies and cupcakes ordered for a primary-night party, and that her repeated attempts to collect had gone unanswered. "This is not about partisanship or policy," Thomas wrote. "It's about honoring financial commitments as a small business owner." She added that she would not vote for Marshall this year.
On Oct. 10 Marshall posted a screenshot of a $1,300 payment on social media, saying "as soon as we learned of this, we immediately contacted the vendor to apologize and paid double for the 2020 bill." Thomas later confirmed she could "finally mark this invoice as paid."
The flap comes as Marshall faces an unexpectedly tight re-election race: a New York Times/Siena College poll shows him tied 45%-45% with Democratic challenger Adam Hammett, and Kansas could elect its first Democratic senator in nearly a century. Marshall was also criticized last month after reports that he had sued more than 700 patients over unpaid medical bills.
Source: CNN https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/11/politics/roger-marshall-2020-cookie-bill-kansas
图片来源：图：堪萨斯州联邦参议员罗杰·马歇尔官方肖像。美国参议院官方照片，公有领域，来源：Wikimedia Commons
