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{{Infobox officeholder
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Garey Forster
|name=Garey Forster
|cffice=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for District 98 (including French Quarter of New Orleans)
|cffice=[[Louisiana]] State Representative for District 98 (including French Quarter of New Orleans)
===Cockfighting===
===Cockfighting===
Forster was an early vigorous advocate of a ban on [[cockfighting]] in Louisiana. In 1990, with the support of animal rights activists, he proposed two bills, one to ban the practice outright and the other to reclassify fowl as “animals” so that they could gain protection through laws banning animal cruelty. "We've been trying to get this thing passed for years, and we'll probably try again ...," Forster said.<ref name=fowl>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-06-14/news/mn-233_1|author=Garry Boulard|title=Regional Report: Custom Survives: Cockfighting Dies Slow Death in Tradition-Bound Louisiana|publisher=''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'|date=June 14, 1990|accessdate=October 17, 2009}}</ref>
Forster was an early vigorous advocate of a ban on cockfighting in Louisiana. In 1990, with the support of animal rights activists, he proposed two bills, one to ban the practice outright and the other to reclassify fowl as “animals” so that they could gain protection through laws banning animal cruelty. "We've been trying to get this thing passed for years, and we'll probably try again ...," Forster said.<ref name=fowl>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-06-14/news/mn-233_1|author=Garry Boulard|title=Regional Report: Custom Survives: Cockfighting Dies Slow Death in Tradition-Bound Louisiana|publisher=''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'|date=June 14, 1990|accessdate=October 17, 2009}}</ref>
A defender of cockfighting, then Representative Raymond "La La" Lalonde, then a Democrat from Sunset in St. Landry Parish, but who later switched parties, said that the practice is ingrained in [[Cajun]] heritage: “This is part of their culture and heritage, and they're not going to give up on this issue without a fight."<ref name=fowl/>
A defender of cockfighting, then Representative Raymond "La La" Lalonde, then a Democrat from Sunset in St. Landry Parish, but who later switched parties, said that the practice is ingrained in [[Cajun]] heritage: “This is part of their culture and heritage, and they're not going to give up on this issue without a fight."<ref name=fowl/>