Press Releases

These are the press releases I've issued over the last year.

• 05/29/06 -- Memorial Day-lest we forget
• 03/31/06 -- Finished Under the Gold Dome
• 03/26/06 -- Final days Under the Gold Dome
• 03/17/06 -- Crossover Under the Gold Dome
• 03/12/06 -- 3/4 Complete Under the Gold Dome
• 03/03/06 -- Under the Gold Dome
• 02/24/06 -- Into the Back Stretch
• 02/06/06 -- Merry Christmas in February
• 01/27/06 -- Not what the Media Expected (part II)
• 01/23/06 -- Not what the Media expected
• 11/30/05 -- Heading Towards Bankruptcy?
• 11/15/05 -- Chairman Forster at Long-Term Care Academy
• 10/27/05 -- Chairman Forster joins Advisory Board
• 09/20/05 -- Voter ID
• 09/17/05 -- Chairman Forster Selected as Toll Fellow
• 07/23/05 -- State Budget Status
• 03/07/05 -- 2005 General Assembly In Full Stride
• 02/16/05 -- 2005 General Assembly Halfway Home
• 02/10/05 -- Rep. Forster joins experts at Energy Academy
• 01/17/05 -- Rep. Forster Appointed to GTA Overview
• 04/28/04 -- 2004 Legislative Session Wrap-up
• 04/16/04 -- Challenging Education
• 04/12/04 -- Rep. Forster Wins Fitness Challenge
• 03/30/04 -- Why public education matters
• 03/12/04 -- Districts Being Redrawn
• 02/20/04 -- Bonds and the Budget
• 02/09/04 -- Medicaid's growth/budget cuts
• 01/30/04 -- Update on the Budget

Recent Media Coverage of State Representative District 3

• (Forster's) bill poised to halt jail time for kids in nonviolent acts; AJC 03/28/06
  The jailing of children under 16 for skipping school, running away or violating curfew would be forbidden under a bill the Georgia Legislature is poised to pass. . Senate Bill 136 also would ensure better access to bail for children.. "Nonviolent children with minimum offenses ... don't need to be locked up with people who are selling crack, stabbing or raping people," said Rep. Ronald Forster (R-Ringgold)
• 'Uninsurable' would get health coverage in (Forster's) bill; AJC 03/11/06
  Allen Bunch is an insurance agent who feels as if he's in the insurance Twilight Zone. . "I can sell you a health insurance policy," he says, "but I can't buy one myself.". Bunch can't get coverage because of multiple medical conditions: diabetes, a kidney disorder and a heart attack two years ago.
• Immigration bills advance in General Assembly; Dailey Citizen 02/18/06
• Schools Immigration on the front burner; Dailey Citizen 01/05/06
• Local Legislators primed for new Session; Catoosa Co. News 01/09/06
• Georgia Lawmakers cap 2005 Session; Catoosa Co. News 04/11/05
• 'INSURING THE UNINSURABLE' (Forster's) bill seeks to help High Risk group; AJC 02/19/05
  Parks Yeomans considers himself a healthy 50-year-old. Doesn't smoke, isn't overweight, rarely is sick. . He wants to buy health insurance. He's even willing to pay extra for it.. But Yeomans, a cabinetmaker and woodworker who lives in Ball Ground, recently has been rejected by three health insurance companies. The reason: He has a blood disorder that was discovered three years ago -- something he said has never affected his health
• Legislature 2004: A visit from Zeus; AJC 03/16/04
  Photo: Zeus, a great horned owl, perches erect on the arm of Rep. Ron Forster (R-Ringgold) Monday afternoon in the soth atrium of the state Capitol. Zeus is one of the show animals at Amicalola Falls State park in North Georgia and was at the Capitol for State Parks Day.
• November School Board elections will not be partisan; Catoosa Co. News 02/26/04
• Lawmakers go back to school; Catoosa Co. News 09/19/03
• Partisanship on the School Board?; Catoosa Co. News 07/08/03
• Election Board change?; Catoosa Co. News 03/04/03
• Political Scoop online; AJC 07/07/02
  Our new online "Political Insider" column won't be content to stay on the campaign trail. It will travel through Georgia's war rooms and back rooms -- and even the bike lanes. . As Tom Baxter and Jim Galloway report, politicians come up with some novel ways to get their message out. To meet new North Georgia constituents and protest redistricting, state Rep. Ron Forster ran and biked the length of his district recently.
• Rep. Forster to endure Ironman-Duathlon; Catoosa Co. News 06/07/02
• Sole Commission petitions going to Atlanta; Catoosa Co. News 01/13/02

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