Dead Republican brothel owner Dennis Hof wins election in Nevada
- Dennis Hof, a self-described pimp who died last month, won 68 per cent of the vote in his Nevada state legislature race
- The dead candidate trounced Democrat Lesia Romanov, a schoolteacher
A brothel-owning, evangelical Christian-backed Republican candidate who died last month won his race for the Nevada state legislature on Tuesday, according to state election officials.
Dennis Hof, 72, defeated Democratic candidate and schoolteacher Lesia Romanov in the race for Nevada’s 36th Assembly District, earning about 68 per cent of the vote. County officials said they would have to appoint a replacement candidate from the same party for his seat.
A representative for Romanov did not respond to a request for comment.
Hof, who presented himself as an American pimp, was a strip-club owner who ran multiple brothels. He had nicknamed himself the “Trump from Pahrump,” after the town where he lived in Nevada.
In a June interview at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, one of his brothels, Hof said his political fortunes had parallels with those of US President Donald Trump.