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Well-known infomercial pitchman Provide Vince Shlomi – higher referred to as the “ShamWow man” who marketed the super-absorbent towel on late-night TV – has filed to run for Congress in Texas as a Republican, in response to state election data.
The submitting, obtained Friday, was submitted underneath the identify Provide Vince “ShamWow” Shlomi.
Shlomi instructed Fox Information Digital in an interview Sunday that his choice to run for workplace was finally motivated by a want to “destroy wokeism” and as a tribute to the late Charlie Kirk, whom he referred to as the unique “woke buster.” He added that the “political infighting within the nation” finally impressed him to hunt workplace and “make America completely happy.”
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Provide Vince Shlomi promotes the “ShamWow” as a super-absorbent cleansing towel. (Vince Provide)
The 61-year-old Israeli-American entrepreneur is aiming to unseat Congressman John Carter, R-Texas, the 84-year-old incumbent who’s in search of re-election within the district. Carter’s turf consists of the northern Austin suburbs, Temple and Fort Hood.
Shlomi is now considered one of at the very least 5 candidates aiming to compete within the main for Texas’ thirty first Congressional District – a reliably crimson stronghold.
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Vince Provide and spouse Melody Claire Mandate attend the Hollywood Domino & Bovet 1822’s eighth Annual Pre-Oscar Hollywood Domino Gala & Event at Sundown Tower Resort on Feb. 19, 2015, in West Hollywood, California. (David Livingston)
Shlomi, president and CEO of the TV advertising and marketing firm Sq. One Leisure, skyrocketed to pop-culture fame within the 2000s together with his high-energy pitch movies that helped make the super-absorbent “ShamWow” towel a family identify.
His rise to fame, nevertheless, was accompanied by a number of high-profile controversies – together with allegations of harassment and bodily altercations – earlier than he finally stepped out of the highlight in recent times and reportedly labored to scrub up his picture.
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Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, leaves a Home Republican Convention assembly with President Donald Trump on the finances reconciliation invoice within the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Could 20, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc)
In 2009, Shlomi was arrested in Miami Seashore after an alleged violent altercation with a intercourse employee – an incident that turned tabloid fodder after police pictures of his face accidents surfaced.
Earlier in his profession, he confronted authorized battles tied to his 1999 underground comedy movie “The Underground Comedy Film.”
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Lately, nevertheless, Shlomi has saved a decrease profile as he shifted again into advertising and marketing and entrepreneurship.
