General Discussion

Pahrump is in deep red Nye County, though only an hour from blue Clark County (Las Vegas). It seems like the average age of Pahrump residents is 75 to 80. It's also the hometown of Dennis Hof, the self-styled "Trump from Pahrump" and former brothel owner. Hof owned the Love Ranch brothel in Crystal, Nevada, just north of Pahrump, where basketball star Lamar Odom got into some trouble in 2015.
Dennis Hof was on the ballot in 2018 for a Nevada Assembly seat but died suddenly before the election. This happened after a party he had with his former girlfriend Heidi Fleiss, Joe Arpaio, Grover Norquist and Ron Jeremy - what a group. He died in the same room where Lamar Odom had been found unconscious 3 years earlier.
It was too late to remove Hof's name from the ballot, and polling places had signs saying that he was deceased, but he won the election anyway. The local joke was that "voters would rather have a dead pimp than any Democrat." Under Nevada law, the seat was declared vacant. County commissioners from Lincoln, Nye and Clark counties conducted a weighted vote to determine Hof's replacement, since that Assembly district included parts of those 3 counties. The seat was awarded to Gregory Hafen II, who still holds the seat today.
That Walmart in Pahrump is open 24/7; I believe it is never closed except maybe on Christmas and a couple other holidays. You can go in there at 3 am and see the oddball critters of Pahrump in full glory.