Dead Republican, Defeats Democratic Candidate To Win Nevada Legislative Seat (Video)

On Monday, the Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof was laid to rest in a lipstick-red casket strewn with roses. A floral arrangement approximating the silhouettes of two mating rabbits marked his grave.

The next day, he was elected to the Nevada State Assembly.

Hof, the owner of several legal brothels including the Love Ranch and the Moonlite BunnyRanch, died in his sleep at the age of 72 on Oct. 16, four months after winning the Republican primary for his district. On Tuesday, unofficial results from the Nevada Secretary of State showed him beating Democrat Lesia Romanov with 63 percent of the vote.

The Clark County Coroner’s Office has not yet determined the cause of Hof’s death.

His victory, however unusual, was not unexpected. The sprawling district is reliably conservative, and under state law, candidates who are elected posthumously are replaced by another member of their party. After Hof’s death, his campaign manager, Chuck Muth, urged supporters to vote for him anyway, writing that a victory would send a message to “the Carson City ‘establishment’ that tried to destroy him politically.” Electing Hof would also prevent a reliably Republican seat from falling into Democratic hands, he added.

The message seems to have worked. On Tuesday, when the Pahrump Valley Times asked readers if they had voted for Hof or Romanov, one Facebook commenter responded that he had voted for Hof because “a dead Republican beats a female Democrat any day.”

Another resident offered an alternative perspective. “I wouldn’t have voted for him if he was alive, because he was NOT a man of character,” she wrote. “However, I did vote for his SEAT to be filled by a REPUBLICAN now that he is dead. I did not want a democrat in his seat.”

Being elected to office from the grave is a fitting end to Hof’s bizarre career and larger-than-life persona. He grew up in a working-class family in Phoenix and sold timeshares before buying his first brothel in 1993, then became a minor celebrity when the BunnyRanch was featured in “Cathouse,” a reality TV show that aired on HBO from 2005 to 2014. In 2015, NBA star Lamar Odom was found unconscious at the Love Ranch, which only added to Hof’s growing fame.

RIP Dennis Hof.

By Antonia Noori Farzan |The Washington Post

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