FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CLAY COUNTY, Kan. — Senator Roger Marshall recently touted visiting three locations in Clay Center, including a visit to Gibson’s Ace Hardware. However, the local publisher of the Clay Center and Clay County Dispatch confirms no such visit occurred.  

Ryan D. Wilson, Publisher of the Clay Center and Clay County Dispatch, stated: 

• “While we cannot vouch for the other two locations, we can say for certain he was not at Gibson’s. After waiting for him at the front door in the cold for about an hour, only to be told by the manager that he had called to cancel his visit. This announcement came shortly after two vehicles with tinted windows drove through Gibson’s parking lot without stopping.” 

• “He likely skipped out after seeing that about two dozen people had congregated at Gibson’s front door waiting to greet him.” 

• “If he really cared about small businesses in Kansas, he would not have supported the President’s tariffs that have so adversely affected small businesses or voted to end the health care subsidies that millions of Kansans (and those employed by small businesses in particular) depend upon for health care.” 
  

This incident follows Sen. Marshall’s abrupt departure from a rural town hall in Oakley, Kansas, when constituents questioned him about Department of Government Efficiency cuts affecting veteran jobs. Marshall later called his constituents “one of the rudest audiences,” and incorrectly accused Kansas attendees of being paid protesters. 

Read the Clay Center and Clay County Dispatch’s full report here. 

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