Dead brothel owner handily wins Nevada assembly seat
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.
The President Trump-loving GOP candidate was always expected to win the heavily conservative area — even when he died just after a 72nd birthday party with pardoned former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, porn star Ron Jeremy, and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist. Jeremy found Hof dead at his Love Ranch brothel the morning after the party, The Associated Press notes. A cause of death still hasn't been determined.
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Polling places were required to post that Hof was dead as his name remained on the ballot Tuesday. Still, Hof's campaign manager Chuck Muth didn't expect a loss, and suggested Hof might earn even more votes now that he was dead. County commissioners will appoint a Republican to take Hof's place, so, as Muth put it, voters who were "uncomfortable" electing a literal pimp can rest easy.
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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.
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