‘I’ve had (a few) people say, ‘I went out and partied last night. I don’t remember what I did, but I woke up and I have this,’ ’’ said Dr. Chris Arpey, a dermatologist and dermatologic surgeon who has treated tattoos at University Hospitals in Iowa City since about 1999.
Removal bills run hundreds of dollars per visit, depending on tattoo size.
And the pain.
‘‘Most people say it hurts about as much removing it as getting it, except that getting it was once and fading it is eight to 10 times,’’ Arpey said.
I think this is the way to go. It is hard to imagine that the DNC has enough support behind their reform plan that would allow them to actually stand up to New Hampshire and refuse to seat their delegates. Further, the importance of New Hampshire is not determine by the delegates won there anyway, so refusing to seat delegates wouldn't really be that much of a threat. Yet further, since the RNC isn't going along with the Democratic reform plan, Republicans stand poised to benefit greatly in this important swing state from any conflict between the national Democratic Party and state officials. Thus, the DNC may simply have to cave.
Nagle, a former congressman from Cedar Falls, said Iowa stands to lose its prominence in the process under plans set to be considered by a commission next month.
And he accused Gov. Tom Vilsack of failing to take a more public role to try to stop it.
"It's a real body blow to our status," he said of a proposal that would schedule caucuses of yet-to-be-named states closer to Iowa's.
"(Vilsack) needs to set aside his presidential ambitions and be the governor of the state of Iowa with a major economic development tool at stake," Nagle said.
Nagle led the Iowa Democratic Party in the early 1980s, and helped draft a state law then that requires Iowa to hold its caucuses before any others.
