Dead brothel owner handily wins Nevada assembly seat

Dennis Hof.
(Image credit: Facebook/ElectHof)

Owning a brothel and facing sexual assault accusations didn't stop Dennis Hof from easily winning his Nevada assembly seat. Neither did being dead.

Hof, who died in October, won his election with 70 percent of the vote on Tuesday, reports CNN. His win came just a day after he was "laid to rest in a lipstick-red casket" alongside "a floral arrangement approximating the silhouettes of two mating rabbits," The Washington Post writes.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.