{"id":63114,"date":"2025-11-24T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63114\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:03:07","slug":"shamwow-guy-is-running-for-congress-in-texas-to-destroy-wokeism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/63114\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018ShamWow Guy\u2019 is running for Congress in Texas to \u2018destroy wokeism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Informercial star Offer Vince Shlomi, best known as the \u201cShamWow Guy\u201d who hawked super absorbent towels on late-night television, is running for Congress<\/a> in Texas.<\/p>\n

Shlomi, 61, is vying for the Republican primary nod against incumbent Rep. John Carter<\/a>, 84, to represent a swatch of Central Texas, which includes the northern suburbs of Austin, Temple and Fort Hood.<\/p>\n

So far, Shlomi is one of five candidates to enter the GOP primary for the reliably red 31st Congressional District<\/a>. The primary is March 3.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Shlomi told Fox News Digital <\/a>that he was motivated to run to \u201cdestroy wokeism\u201d and as a tribute to Charlie Kirk<\/a>, who was assassinated in September while speaking at a university in Utah. Shlomi called Kirk the original \u201cwoke buster\u201d and said he wants to end \u201cpolitical infighting in the country\u201d and \u201cmake America happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shlomi, who was born in Israel and raised in Brooklyn, skyrocketed to infomercial fame in the 2000s with his energetic pitch for the absorbent towels that became a household name. He went on to sell the Slap Chop, a handheld chopping device, the Graty, a cheese grater, and the Schticky, a reusable lint roller.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll be saying \u2018wow\u2019 every time you use this towel,\u201d he would say, looking directly at the camera and spilling soda to demonstrate the towel\u2019s absorbency. \u201cIt sells itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Schlomi\u2019s rise to success as a pitchman was complicated by a 2009 arrest in Miami Beach after an alleged violent altercation with a sex worker, which left him with a bloody jaw in a viral police mugshot. Prosecutors declined to press charges.<\/p>\n

After the arrest, he told NBC News<\/a> in 2013 that he had stepped back from the public eye, cut down on partying and recommitted to his work. The arrest, he told the outlet, probably saved his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople understand you make mistakes in life,\u201d he said. \u201cHopefully I won\u2019t make another mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Informercial star Offer Vince Shlomi, best known as the \u201cShamWow Guy\u201d who hawked super absorbent towels on late-night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[287,27,29,28,292,2819,19581,10806],"class_list":["post-63114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-politics","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-politics","tag-tv","tag-tv-personalities","tag-u-s-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}