Saving face: Ind. man removing Romney-Ryan tattoo

November 30, 2012 @ 4:46 pm


Eric Hartsburg, 30, poses for a photo showing his Romney-Ryan election logo tattoo Friday, Nov. 30, 2012 in Michigan City, Ind. Hartsburg, a professional wrestler, said he hoped the 5-by-2-inch tattoo would make politics more fun and had initially resigned himself to keeping it, but he is now planning to have it removed. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford) | Zoom

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) - A northern Indiana man who had the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan campaign logo tattooed onto his face "to make politics fun" says it's time for it to come off.

Eric Hartsburg of Michigan City, Ind., says he plans to have the red-and-blue "R" removed from its prominent place next to his right eye.

He says a Republican supporter paid him $15,000 to get the tattoo and keep it until at least the election was over.

Weeks after President Barack Obama defeated the former Massachusetts governor in the Nov. 6 election, Hartsburg says "now to me it represents not a losing campaign, but a sore losing campaign."

Hartsburg says he reached out to the Romney campaign about the tattoo, but feels snubbed that no campaign staffer ever contacted him.


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  • longwayhome wrote...
    I hope he got paid
    November 30, 2012 8:12 pm
    For doing that to himself. Probably got stiffed out of the 15 grand, knowing the republican con men.
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  • longwayhome wrote...
    Looking at this again
    December 3, 2012 6:38 pm
    I can picture "its the Boo Hoo boy! Unemployed, huge nose, no direction in life other than posting nonsense on this site. The cute little flower tying his ponytail gave it away. What a stud!
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