You’ll be saying “WOW.”

Famous infomercial pitchman Offer Vince Shlomi – better known as the “ShamWow guy” who advertised the super-absorbent towel on late-night TV – has filed to run for Congress in Texas as a Republican, according to state election records.

The filing, received Friday, was submitted under the name Offer Vince “ShamWow” Shlomi.

Shlomi told Fox News Digital in an interview Sunday that his decision to run for office was ultimately motivated by a desire to “destroy wokeism” and as a tribute to the late Charlie Kirk, whom he called the original “woke buster.”

He added that the “political infighting in the country” eventually inspired him to seek office and “make America happy.”

The 61-year-old Israeli-American entrepreneur is aiming to unseat Congressman John Carter, R-Texas, the 84-year-old incumbent who is seeking re-election in the district.

Carter’s turf includes the northern Austin suburbs, Temple and Fort Hood.

Shlomi is now one of at least five candidates aiming to compete in the primary for Texas’ 31st Congressional District – a reliably red stronghold.

Shlomi, president and CEO of the TV marketing company Square One Entertainment, skyrocketed to pop-culture fame in the 2000s with his high-energy pitch videos that helped make the super-absorbent “ShamWow” towel a household name.

His rise to fame, however, was accompanied by several high-profile controversies – including allegations of harassment and physical altercations – before he eventually stepped out of the spotlight in recent years and reportedly worked to clean up his image.

In 2009, Shlomi was arrested in Miami Beach after an alleged violent altercation with a sex worker – an incident that became tabloid fodder after police photos of his face injuries surfaced.

his wife:

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/director-vince-offer-r-wife-116120584.jpg?quality=75&strip=all

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801794&forum_id=2:#49459180)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cudz7OEu94G/?hl=en

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801794&forum_id=2:#49459204)

he looks like a cocaine user.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801794&forum_id=2:#49459225)

Now there’s a distinct quality in tabloid reporting that goes beyond the standard sordid, scandalized, reductive nature. It’s pushing up against a syntax limit, trying and failing to describe a deracinated, alien culture with no shared context.

I’m reading a New York Post tabloid right now featuring:

A Palestinian “esthetician” in a burka-style headdress, a New York resident

Two Jewish people who can’t figure out how to pay their parking meter, offering her cash for help

Her demanding they say “Free Palestine” before she’ll tell them how to pay it

The whole thing filmed for her TikTok page

The Jews refusing to say it

Chaos ensuing

The article is packed with oblique references and pictures of everyone, with those classic “Inset: Incredibly Ethnic Name…” captions.

It’s completely jarring compared to the “simpler” tabloids where you’d hear about some clean-cut bro with a few extramaritals or kids out of wedlock. Now you get insane stories of mystery meat interacting with mystery meat, everyone dragging in old-country racial grievances. Israel stuff is at least somewhat legible to most people now, but there are plenty of other examples—like weird Eastern Euro neighbors killing each other in the suburbs because of some intractable blood feud over borscht

I got linked to this article from OP. Look at the ShamWow guy’s weird mystery-meat wife’s name: “Melody Claire Mandate.” Like come on dog, this bitch is brown, give it up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5801794&forum_id=2:#49471661)