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

TOPEKA — Lawyers for a Kansas Republican U.S. senator running for reelection sent his opponent a cease-anddesist 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 pr…