Marshall campaign pays six-year-old Kansas bakery bill

Campaign settles bakery bill

Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall’s campaign paid a Kansas bakery this weekend for hundreds of treats ordered for a campaign event in 2020. The payment settled a bill that had remained unpaid for six years.

The order was a campaign expense tied to the 2020 event. Marshall is a U.S. senator representing Kansas, but his campaign was responsible for the bill because it placed the bakery order. The settlement closes that purchase between the campaign and the Kansas business.

A six-year timeline

The bill originated with the campaign’s event order in 2020 and remained outstanding until this weekend’s payment. The purchase involved hundreds of treats, making it a business transaction for goods ordered for a political event rather than an official Senate expense.

Paying the bill ends the debt connected to that bakery order. The development concerns the timing of a campaign payment, not a legislative vote, government program or election administration decision.

No race directly connected

The payment is not directly linked to a current race or election. It also does not establish a policy position for Marshall or any other candidate.

Campaign finance records can show how political committees handle expenses and payments. Any filing that includes this transaction could document how the campaign records the settlement of the six-year-old bakery bill.