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🏠 Ty Masterson wants a promotion. Kansas homeowners deserve answers.
Scott County Record publisher Rod Haxton delivers a blistering editorial:
“Masterson still selling tax cut charade.”
His central criticism deserves attention: Masterson has led the Kansas Senate since 2021, backed by a Republican supermajority. After years of promising meaningful property-tax relief, he’s campaigning on another promise to fix it.
Property-tax proposals deserve more scrutiny than a campaign slogan. Bills depend on both assessed values and mill levies. Limiting one doesn’t settle who pays for schools, roads, firefighters and emergency services.
The official estimate for the Masterson-backed Senate valuation-cap proposal projected $218.6 million less revenue for the statewide school levy in fiscal year 2028. The state could replace that money—but voters deserve an explanation of where it would come from.
Kansans deserve lower bills, strong public schools and functioning communities. Anyone asking to be governor should explain how their numbers deliver all three.
SOURCES:
📰 Scott County Record — Rod Haxton editorial:
facebook.com/share/1B1MKhbLM…
📰 Kansas Reflector — property-tax proposals and legislative record:
kansasreflector.com/2026/10/…
📄 Kansas Legislative Research Department — Senate valuation-cap proposal and fiscal estimate:
kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/b…
#KsLeg #Kansas #Election2026 #VoteForChange #Vote #KsGov
📰 NATIONAL HEADLINES. SERIOUS QUESTIONS FOR “DOC MARSHALL.”
Roger Marshall sued more than 700 patients over unpaid medical bills. Now a former patient is taking him and his former medical practice to court.
⚖️ Meischa Zimmerman filed a proposed class-action lawsuit October 29 in Barton County against Marshall and Heartland Regional OBGYN PA, alleging unlawful interest charges - often 18% annually - on patients’ medical debt. State law limits interest rates to 15% in most cases.
The lawsuit alleges:
▪️ Usury
▪️ Unjust enrichment
▪️ Breach of good faith and fair dealing
▪️ Breach of fiduciary duty
It seeks class certification, restitution and damages.
🧾 WHO SET THE 18% RATE?
Steven Johnson, the lawyer who represented Marshall and his practice in many collection cases, told The Kansas City Star and NY Times that Marshall’s office determined the interest rate.
The complaint goes further, alleging that contracts requiring excessive interest were drafted at Marshall’s direction.
⚖️ WHAT AUTHORITY DID HIS COLLECTION LAWYERS HAVE?
Kansas ethics rules require lawyers to keep clients reasonably informed. The commentary says lawyers “ordinarily should consult the client on tactics that might injure or coerce others.”
Those lawyers were pursuing debts on behalf of Marshall or his practice.
Sunflower State Journal also reports that Marshall acknowledged during the Senate debate that he hadn’t placed limits on the lawyers handling collections.
That does make his instructions, authorization and oversight legitimate questions.
💸 Zimmerman was sued over $3,596 related to her daughter’s birth, plus 18% annual interest. The New York Times reports she was arrested three times for missing court dates in the collection case.
📄 The complaint describes the conduct as “callous and predatory” and “unmitigated greed and blatantly unlawful,” according to the reporting.
📣 Saying collections were “out of our hands” leaves important questions unanswered. Who authorized these collection methods? What limits were given? Why were patients charged 18% interest?
Patients deserve fair billing. Kansans deserve answers.
#Kansas #RogerMarshall #MedicalDebt #ClassAction #PatientRights #Accountability #KsSen #KsLeg #VoteForChange #Kansas #Vote
🔎 BACKGROUND SOURCES FOR THE RATE-SETTING AND CLIENT-CONSULTATION POINTS
The Kansas City Star:
kansascity.com/news/politics…
Kansas Rule of Professional Conduct 1.4:
kscourts.gov/KSCourts/media/…
📰 CLASS-ACTION COVERAGE PUBLISHED OCTOBER 30, 2026
The New York Times:
nytimes.com/2026/10/30/us/el…
Kansas Reflector:
kansasreflector.com/2026/10/…
Sunflower State Journal:
sunflowerstatejournal.com/cl…
The Topeka Capital-Journal / USA TODAY Network:
usatoday.com/story/news/poli…
The Washington Sun:
washingtonsun.com/legal/roge…
The New Republic:
newrepublic.com/post/217404/…
MS NOW / political analysis:
ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/ma…
📡 REPUBLICATIONS OF THE REFLECTOR REPORT
KCUR:
kcur.org/politics-elections-…
KAKE:
kake.com/home/marshall-sued-…
The Iola Register:
iolaregister.com/news/state-…
News From The States:
newsfromthestates.com/articl…
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A class action usury lawsuit filed Thursday accuses U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall and his former Great Bend medical practice of routinely charging patients illegal interest rates on unpaid medical debt | #ksleg via Dale Hogg kansasreflector.com/2026/10/…
🩺 Who decided patients should pay 18% interest on medical debt?
Sunflower State Journal and The New York Times are reporting on the proposed class-action lawsuit Meischa Zimmerman filed against Roger Marshall and his former medical practice on October 29.
📄 The complaint alleges that contracts requiring excessive interest - often 18% annually -were drafted at Marshall’s direction.
The Times also reports that a lawyer who handled Marshall’s collection cases previously said the 18% rate was set by the doctor’s office.
⚖️ During an earlier Senate debate, Marshall defended his collection practices, saying: “Once we sent it to collections it was out of our hands.”
The lawsuit puts his role in setting those interest rates under scrutiny.
💸 Marshall’s practice sued Zimmerman over $3,596 related to her daughter’s birth, plus 18% annual interest and court costs.
Both outlets report unsuccessful efforts to obtain comment from Marshall’s team about the lawsuit by publication.
📌 This is a proposed class action.
Kansans deserve a direct answer about who set those rates and why.
📰 Sunflower State Journal:
sunflowerstatejournal.com/cl…
📰 The New York Times:
nytimes.com/2026/10/30/us/el…
#Kansas #RogerMarshall #MedicalDebt #ClassAction #PatientRights #Accountability #kssen #ksleg #VoteForChange #Vote
New: A former patient has filed a class action lawsuit against Sen. Roger Marshall, arguing that the 18 percent interest she was charged was "egregious" and may have violated Kansas law.
nytimes.com/2026/10/30/us/el…
🩺 “Doc” gets a taste of his own medicine.
Roger Marshall sued more than 700 patients over unpaid medical bills. Now a former patient is suing him.
⚖️ On October 29, Meischa Zimmerman filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in Barton County, Kansas against Marshall and his former medical practice, alleging unlawful interest charges often 18% annually on patients’ medical debt.
💸 Marshall’s practice sued Zimmerman over $3,596 related to her daughter’s birth. The New York Times reports she was arrested three times for missing court dates in the collection case.
📄 Now she is seeking restitution and damages on behalf of affected patients. The complaint alleges:
▪️ Usury
▪️ Unjust enrichment
▪️ Breach of good faith and fair dealing
▪️ Breach of fiduciary duty
Kansas Law generally limits these interest rates to 15%, with exceptions for credit cards for example.
Marshall’s spokeswoman did not immediately respond to the Times’ request for comment.
📣 Marshall owes Kansans a clear explanation of why his practice charged patients 18% interest on medical debt.
📰 Kansas Reflector:
kansasreflector.com/2026/10/…
📰 The New York Times:
nytimes.com/2026/10/30/us/el…
#Kansas #RogerMarshall #MedicalDebt #ClassAction #Accountability #PatientRights #KsSen #KsLeg #VoteForChange #Vote
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🚩 Ty Masterson wants to run Kansas, but struggled to answer a basic question about his own job from KAKE News: How many hours a week did you work?
He repeated “full time,” compared his pay to the reporter’s, then attacked the journalism.
Here’s what’s documented:
💰 WSU’s FY2027 budget lists his GoCreate position at $241,781 annually.
📧 The Kansas City Star reported 14 outgoing university emails over four months, compared with 532 from the assistant director. More than 17 of the 26 pages released were blank or completely redacted.
🧾 The Star reported he collected more than $1.1 million over roughly a
❓That doesn’t explain the Star’s account that Assistant Director Kimberly McCollum introduced herself as “the director here.”
💰GoCreate receives Koch support. Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity is also backing Masterson for governor with $10M+ in Koch support. Those connections make transparency especially important.
📢 If Masterson thinks this is an “easy debunk,” he should provide the records. Kansans deserve accountability from someone asking to be governor.
#Kansas #KSPolitics #KSgov #Accountability #ModerateKansas
🔗 Sources:
WSU FY2027 budget, printed page 325: wichita.edu/administration/b…
Kansas City Star records investigation:
aol.com/articles/fourteen-em…
Kansas City Star reporting on GoCreate, McCollum and Koch connections:
amp.kansascity.com/news/poli…
KAKE interview clip:
facebook.com/KAKEnews/videos…
#TyMasterson #KansasPolitics #KSgov #Accountability #Transparency #FollowTheMoney #KsLeg #Ksed #VoteForChange #Vote
Moderate Kansas retweeted
Kansas needs a Secretary of State who can earn public trust and do the work.
@ScottMorganKS brings experience working for Bob Dole, Nancy Kassebaum and Gov. Mike Hayden, along with two terms on the Lawrence school board.
In today’s Kansas Reflector, the United Kansas Party candidate outlines concrete priorities:
▪️ Strengthen protection of voter registration records.
▪️ Improve election audits.
▪️ Give county election officials the technical support they need.
▪️ Build public confidence through competent, accountable administration.
His assessment of policymaking driven by election conspiracies:
“Conspiracies are a lousy thing to make public policy on.”
Pat Proctor, meanwhile, refused to answer the Reflector’s questions:
“There’s not a chance in hell I’m answering questions for your paper.”
Answering questions—including difficult questions from journalists—is part of seeking public office.
Morgan also makes a straightforward case for giving Kansans another choice. His background and proposals deserve consideration on their merits. No political party owns your vote.
Read the full article:
Kansas Reflector: Three candidates, deep disagreements over election administration
kansasreflector.com/2026/10/…
#KsLeg #kssos #voting #UnitedKansas
#vote #Kansas #Nov3
⛽ Gas is up 41.6%. Diesel is up 68.4% since March 1.
Roger Marshall calls this “one of the best economies” of his lifetime.
That economy can look pretty good when you have a large investment portfolio or an ownership stake in an oil company. 💰🛢️👀
Nationally, the wealthiest 10% of households hold approximately 88% of corporate stocks and mutual-fund shares.
ExxonMobil reported $14.5 BILLION in profits in the second quarter of 2026. Chevron reported $12.1 BILLION.
Meanwhile, families depending on their next paycheck face these numbers:
▪️ INFLATION: 3.7% in September, compared with 3.0% in January 2025, when Trump returned to office.
▪️ JOBS: Just 29,000 jobs added nationwide in September. That’s weak hiring.
▪️ PAYCHECKS: Average hourly pay after inflation fell 0.7% over the year ending September.
▪️ TARIFFS: New York Fed researchers found that nearly 90% of the economic burden of Trump’s 2025 tariffs fell on American businesses and consumers.
Many working Kansans have retirement investments. A modest retirement account doesn’t necessarily offset higher fuel, food and housing costs.
People can show up, pass a drug test, work hard and still fall behind. Their willingness to work does not determine the price at the pump.
In the final days before Election Day, Marshall is selling prosperity while overlooking who is benefiting and who is paying more. 👎
💵 What a working family’s paycheck can buy matters, too.
#Kansas #RogerMarshall #CostOfLiving #WorkingFamilies #FactCheck #KSPolitics #KsSen #VoteForChange #voteks #vote
CLOSE RACES. TURNOUT MATTERS.
A new CNN/SSRS Kansas poll shows:
🔹 U.S. Senate:
Adam Hamilton 49%, Roger Marshall 45%.
🔹 Governor:
Ty Masterson 50%, Cindy Holscher 45%.
Those numerical leads are within or near the poll’s published ±4.5-point sampling margin. These are competitive races, not decided elections.
The Senate poll did not include the Libertarian candidate who has generally polled between 2%-5%. (There was 4% identified as neither and 1% as other in the two candidate Kansas Senate CNN poll)
The breakdowns show differences by party, age and education, along with substantial dissatisfaction with Marshall: 53% view him unfavorably. Among Hamilton supporters, 59% describe their vote primarily as opposition to Marshall.
The graphic separates candidate support, unfavorable opinions and voter motivation. Those measures tell different parts of the story.
Polls don’t vote. People do. Make your plan to cast a ballot.
📊 Full CNN/SSRS poll:
documentcloud.org/documents/…
Survey conducted Oct. 20–26 among 838 registered Kansas voters, with results weighted for likelihood of voting. Subgroup margins are larger.
Go Vote and Take your Friends!
Your Vote will decide the election.
#KsSen #KsLeg #Kansas #VoteForChange #Election2026 #polls
Roger Marshall told Kansans to “scroll back through this feed” to see where he’s been. Someone compared it with his travel records.
According to American Journal News, Marshall posted about visiting Hutchinson on May 11, 2024, and worshipping at a Wichita church on May 13.
His official Senate expense report documents a May 10–14 trip from Washington to Key West and Sarasota, Florida, and back. One expense entry totals $2,405.01 in taxpayer-funded transportation, per diem and incidentals.
Posting photos from earlier visits is common. Those posts still don’t establish where he was when they appeared.
Marshall invited voters to scrutinize his Facebook feed. He should now provide the actual dates of those Kansas visits and explain the official business behind the Florida trip.
Kansans deserve a clear account of their Senator’s time, and their money.
Read the article
#KsSen #VoteForChange #Kansas
americanjournalnews.com/roge…
Roger Marshall has voted 14 times against efforts to end the Iran war, a war that has driven up fuel costs. President Trump and the Gulf nations are now preparing for new escalations following the midterm election.
The figure in this image represents $145.1 BILLION in estimated extra U.S. gasoline and diesel spending since March 1, 2026, compared with the same period in 2025.
That’s money coming out of family budgets and small businesses.
Marshall gets the photo op. We get the bill.
Follow the live fuel-cost tracker:
patrickdehaan.com/fuelclock.…
#KsSen #Gas #ItsTheEconomyStupid #VoteForChange #Nov3 #Kansas
Even in his longtime hometown of Great Bend, Roger Marshall is losing people who used to support him.
The Kansas City Star went there. Listen to what people who know him had to say:
“Look, it’s quite obvious he doesn’t live here anymore.”
“He’s become disconnected with a lot of people around here.”
— Great Bend Mayor Alan Moeder
“He gives Trump free rein every time.”
“I voted for him to represent Kansas, not Trump.”
— Craig Neeland, Marshall’s former loan officer, who voted for him in 2016 and 2020 and says he won’t this November
“I’m a lifelong Republican. But I just think Adam Hamilton is a much stronger leader, and has the values that really represent Kansas.”
— Dan Bonine, an early Marshall donor
These are people from the community where Marshall built his career and raised his family. Former voters. An early donor. His former loan officer.
Their words tell a story: Marshall has lost touch, and some of his longtime supporters are moving on.
Kansas deserves a senator who shows up, stays connected and puts Kansas first.
Source: The Kansas City Star, October 27, 2026.
amp.kansascity.com/opinion/o…
#KsSen #VoteForChange #KsLeg #Ksed #Election2026 #Kansas #Vote
Even Trump is bored of Roger Marshall. 😴
Every time Roger speaks, he’s blaming everyone but himself. Apparently he needs poll numbers to tell him what Kansans knew eight months ago. He voted for this.
His approval rating is lower than Trump’s felony count. 🍊
2026 Kansas Speaks:
▪️ Roger Marshall: 26.1% approve,
46.9% disapprove. Net: −20.8.
▪️ Donald Trump: 32.9% approve,
54.0% disapprove. Net: −21.1.
Same excuses. Same boring Super Orange take.
Why is he whispering? 🤫
It’s nap time. 💤
#KansasPolitics #RogerMarshall #KsSen #VoteForChange #Vote #LowEnergyRoger #Trump #OrangeManGroup #KsLeg
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Moderate Kansas retweeted
The mayor of Great Bend:
“Look, it’s quite obvious he doesn’t live here anymore. He lives in Florida. He has a little hunting lodge south of Great Bend in Stafford County. And I think that’s an issue for people ... He’s become disconnected with a lot of people around here.”
Moderate Kansas retweeted
Retired local banker who supported Marshall in 2016 for Congress and 2020 for Senate:
“I was Roger's loan officer. I won't vote for him. He gives Trump free rein every time. I voted for him to represent Kansas, not Trump.”
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Roger Marshall’s problem with the truth didn’t start with Adam Hamilton. His record stretches across multiple campaigns.
2008: The conviction. His reckless-driving conviction was replaced with a lesser traffic offense after intervention by a prosecutor whose father was Marshall’s business partner. The judge said he had been told the original entry reflected an error. Marshall’s campaign later refused to release the case affidavit.
kansas.com/news/politics-gov…
2016: Misleading ads against Tim Huelskamp. The Hutchinson News responded:
“Here’s a real headline for Roger Marshall: His campaign ad is misleading.”
KWCH found that his ad presented older editorial comments as though newspapers were responding to Huelskamp’s latest attack. It also made the Wichita Eagle appear to have published something it hadn’t.
kwch.com/content/news/FF12-C…
kansasreflector.com/2020/09/…
2016: The ACOG explanation. KWCH reported that Marshall said he had to belong to ACOG to practice as an OB-GYN. ACOG’s own April 2016 statement described membership as voluntary. It wasn’t a general licensing or board-certification requirement.
kwch.com/content/news/Submit…
acog.org/news/2016/04/acog-s…
2018: Dismissing Alan LaPolice. A contemporary Rod Haxton column challenged Marshall’s portrayal of LaPolice as a “perennial joke” and criticized his limited willingness to debate. This was an opinion rebuttal to a personal attack, rather than a fact check establishing a false policy claim.
alpha.creativecirclecdn.com/…
2019 to today: Changing biographical claims. His congressional newsletter claimed 10,000 baby deliveries. His campaign website now headlines “Five thousand babies,” while the text says “more than five thousand.” The campaign should clarify its count; “more than 5,000” can include 10,000.
archive.hayspost.com/2019/01…
kansansformarshall.com/about…
The accompanying screenshots also show Wichita disappearing from the heading and the Wesley residency sentence being removed. His physician profile and earlier campaign biography place his residency in St. Petersburg, Florida.
doximity.com/pub/roger-marsh…
d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.ne…
2020: Manipulating Barbara Bollier’s words. His campaign took her promise to ban surprise medical bills and used it to suggest she wanted to ban guns. AP documented the unrelated context of her original remarks.
apnews.com/kansas-republican…
January 6, 2021: His first Senate vote. After the Capitol attack, Marshall supported the objection to counting Arizona’s certified presidential electoral votes.
senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r…
#KsSen #RogerMarshall #Election2026 #Kansas #lies #hypocrite
#VoteForChange #AdamHamilton
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Marshall’s explanations also deserve scrutiny on campaign money, medical debt and his own policy record.
Qatar and campaign money. He criticized Qatar’s extremist ties in 2019, praised the relationship during his 2023 visit, and defended Qatar as a “great ally” in 2025. This month, he called radical Islam the greatest threat to American democracy and freedom.
FEC-derived records for the 2025–26 cycle list $5,000 from Venable’s PAC. Venable lobbies for Qatar. These relationships deserve scrutiny. The identified contribution came from a U.S. PAC.
denvergazette.com/2025/03/28…
apnews.com/article/f6c26eb78…
otrecord.news/pacs/venable-p…
The patients and 18% interest. Reporting documented lawsuits against more than 700 former patients and an 18% annual interest rate. Marshall has distanced himself from collection decisions. His former collections attorney told The Star that Marshall’s office determined the interest charged.
aol.com/articles/marshall-ch…
His campaign’s bakery bill went unpaid for six years. He paid after public scrutiny, saying: “We have absolutely no idea how this happened.”
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
His own methane and food-label record. Marshall championed livestock-feed legislation promoted partly for reducing methane emissions. He also voted to advance food-warning-label legislation that the National Pork Producers Council warned could discourage consumption of nutritious meat products.
marshall.senate.gov/newsroom…
nppc.org/capital-update/capi…
The Great Plains Manufacturing tariff claim. Marshall credited tariffs for the company’s growth. Its CFO said tariff costs outweighed limited benefits and explained that the growth wasn’t caused by tariffs.
newsfromthestates.com/articl…
The false claim about Hamilton and beef. PolitiFact examined Hamilton’s sermon and subsequent statements and rated Marshall’s claim that Hamilton wants to shut down the beef industry FALSE. Remarks about cattle, diet and repentance came from different portions of a broader sermon.
politifact.com/factchecks/20…
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Public office also requires transparency about finances, taxpayer spending, war votes and access to constituents.
The outdated Great Bend address. Federal candidate filings continued listing the address of a house Marshall sold in January 2021. He updated it in September 2026. That discrepancy warrants an explanation, although an outdated address alone doesn’t establish unlawful residency.
kansasreflector.com/2026/09/…
The taxpayer-funded Sugar Bowl trip. An ethics complaint questions approximately $4,000 in New Orleans travel, where Marshall attended the Sugar Bowl. It says the available record contains no evidence of official business there. These are allegations submitted for investigation, with no finding established by the complaint itself.
kansasreflector.com/2026/10/…
The Iran statements and votes. In March, his own website floated the possibility of leaving Iran in two or three weeks. In June, it praised the Iran memorandum of understanding. He also says he hates war.
Across 2025–26, Marshall cast 14 votes against Iran war-powers measures, mostly procedural votes blocking consideration. That count includes the 2025 vote and procedural actions, rather than 14 formal authorizations of war.
marshall.senate.gov/newsroom…
marshall.senate.gov/newsroom…
politifact.com/article/2026/…
senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r…
Public accountability. His last reported open, in-person town hall was March 1, 2025, roughly 600 days ago. He told Hays Post the events had become “non-productive and dangerous.” Voters deserve opportunities to question their senator publicly.
kansasreflector.com/2026/08/…
hayspost.com/posts/6db401cb-…
The family investment conflict. The American Prospect reported that Marshall promoted biostimulant legislation that could benefit businesses connected to his wife’s investments without mentioning those interests in his public pitch. The investments appeared on financial disclosures. The issue is the potential conflict and his explanation of it.
prospect.org/2026/10/21/roge…
The earmark near his ranch. AP reported that a $4.2 million water project Marshall sought could benefit a ranch he partly owns. Experts raised questions about potential financial benefit; his office denies that benefit.
apnews.com/article/9472cc050…
Kansans deserve accurate biographies, honest advertising, transparent finances and straight answers. Asking for another six years means answering for the whole record. We are tired of the lies.
