Roger Marshall alleges defamation in new ad about former Kansas patient arrested while in debt

By: Anna Kaminski

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: September 28, 2026

Words: 773

Last Updated: 6 days, 18 hours ago


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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 …

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