Late brothel boss picked to win seat
CARSON CITY: A brothel-owning Republican candidate for the Nevada state legislature who died this week will remain on the ballot and win his election next month, his campaign manager predicted on Wednesday.
Dennis Hof, 72, who died on Tuesday, styled himself as America’s best-known pimp and a strip-club owner who ran multiple brothels. He had nicknamed himself the “Trump from Pahrump,” after the town where he lived in Nevada. “I feel comfortable predicting that he is still going to win the election on Nov 6,” campaign manager Chuck Muth said. Hof was running for a seat in a heavily Republican district and had been favoured to win.
If he is elected, the Reno Gazette Journal reported, the vacancy that spans constituencies in multiple counties will be filled via a joint meeting process headed by county commissioners. “There are a lot of Republicans who were uncomfortable voting for Dennis because of the nature of his business,” Mr Muth said. “They will feel much more comfortable casting the ballot for him now, knowing there will be another Republican to replace him,” he added.
In a June interview, Hof said his political fortunes had parallels with those of US President Donald Trump. “This really is the Trump movement,” Hof said in the interview at Moonlite BunnyRanch, his brothel near his home in Pahrump. “People will set aside for a moment their moral beliefs, their religious beliefs, to get somebody that is honest in office.”
The thrice-divorced author of The Art of the Pimp owned a strip club and five legal brothels in Nevada, the only US state with legalised prostitution.