Dom Gentile
Dominic Gentile (born c. 1965 in Miami, Florida) is the owner of Jan-Pro of North Alabama and was a candidate in the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Jeff Sessions' appointment as Attorney General.
Gentile grew up in Florida. He studied at the University of Alabama, playing on the Alabama Crimson Tide football team as a walk-on place kicker and serving as a senator in the University of Alabama Student Government Association. He graduated in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in political science. After graduating, Gentile worked as a corporate sales associate for Duracell for more than a decade, and later worked in a similar role for the Sara Lee Corporation.
In 2004 Gentile bought the North Alabama territory for Jan-Pro Franchising International. He currently manages a network of fifty individual franchise owners offering commercial cleaning services in the Birmingham and Huntsville metropolitan areas.
Motivated in part by well-publicized scandals and rising individual health insurance premiums, Gentile made plans to run for public office. He considered campaigning for Governor of Alabama, but decided to enter the Senate race when it was moved from 2018 to 2017 by Governor Kay Ivey. Gentile wants to break up Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama's monopoly on individual health insurance and to push for tax reforms including large-scale cuts to the IRS, a 20% rate cap for individuals and eliminating taxes on repatriated overseas corporate profits. Gentile also favors the border wall proposed by President Donald Trump and supports anti-abortion laws, school choice policies, innovations in energy production, and a balanced budget amendment. Pledging to run as an "outsider", he has promised not to accept only individual campaign donations and not to run for re-election in 2024 if he wins and holds the seat in 2018.
References
- Anderson, Jon (May 10, 2017) "Hoover resident Dom Gentile announces bid for U.S. Senate." Hoover Sun.
External links
- Dom Gentile campaign website