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Thibodaux authored in 1992 ''Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind''<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.amazon.com/Political-Correctness-Cloning-American-Mind/dp/156384026X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238945889&sr=8-2|title=The Cloning of the American Mind|publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=May 30, 2019}}</ref> and in 1994 ''Political Correctness: Are There Limits to this Lunacy?.''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Political-Correctness-Limits-Lunacy/dp/1563840669/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238946062&sr=1-2|title=Political Correctness: Are There Limits to This Lunacy|publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=May 30, 2019}}</ref>
Thibodaux authored in 1992 ''Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind''<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.amazon.com/Political-Correctness-Cloning-American-Mind/dp/156384026X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238945889&sr=8-2|title=The Cloning of the American Mind|publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=May 30, 2019}}</ref> and in 1994 ''Political Correctness: Are There Limits to this Lunacy?.''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Political-Correctness-Limits-Lunacy/dp/1563840669/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238946062&sr=1-2|title=Political Correctness: Are There Limits to This Lunacy|publisher=Amazon.com|accessdate=May 30, 2019}}</ref>
==School board service==
In 1994, Thibodaux was elected to the District 7 seat on the Lafayette Parish School Board. He was re-elected in 1998, 2002, and was unopposed for his fourth term in 2006. Thibodaux was elected by the board to serve twice as board president, and had been elected to serve as vice-president in January 2007, shortly before his death.
In 1994, Thibodaux was elected to the District 7 seat on the Lafayette Parish School Board. He was re-elected in 1998, 2002, and was unopposed for his fourth term in 2006. Thibodaux was elected by the board to serve twice as board president, and had been elected to serve as vice-president in January 2007, shortly before his death.
Soon after his death, at the request of Thibodaux's family, the Lafayette Parish School Board appointed Mark Cockerham (born 1976), a former student of Thibodaux's who had worked in his congressional campaign, to fill the District 7 vacancy until a special election could be held in conjunction with the regular [[primary]] elections scheduled for October 20, 2007. With the endorsement of Thibodaux's family, Cockerham was re-elected to serve a full term in the election that fall.
Soon after his death, at the request of Thibodaux's family, the Lafayette Parish School Board appointed Mark Cockerham (born 1976), a former student of Thibodaux's who had worked in his congressional campaign, to fill the District 7 vacancy until a special election could be held in conjunction with the regular [[primary]] elections scheduled for October 20, 2007. With the endorsement of Thibodaux's family, Cockerham was re-elected to serve a full term in the election that fall.
In 2011, the Lafayette Parish School Board announced the opening of the David Thibodaux Career and Technical High School, a facility designed to provide students with career and technical industry-based certification and college credit, which was a vision Thibodaux had fought for in the years before his death.
In 2011, the Lafayette Parish School Board announced the opening of the David Thibodaux Career and Technical High School, a facility designed to provide students with career and technical industry-based certification and college credit, which was a vision Thibodaux had fought for in the years before his death.
==Louisiana Republican pioneer==
At the time of Thibodaux's death, Roger F. Villere, Jr., then the chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party, heralded Thibodaux as a pioneer of the GOP in southwestern Louisiana. Disenfranchised with the controlling Democratic Party due to widespread corruption throughout the state in the 1970s and 1980s, Thibodaux sought to enhance the position of Louisiana's Republican Party to restore a viable two-party system to his state. He served as a delegate to the 1988 [[Republican National Convention]], which met in New Orleans, and was elected to the Republican State Central Committee, where, as a member of The Louisiana Coalition against Racism and Nazism, he rallied against [[David Duke]]'s 1991 gubernatorial campaign.
At the time of Thibodaux's death, Roger F. Villere, Jr., then the chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party, heralded Thibodaux as a pioneer of the GOP in southwestern Louisiana. Disenfranchised with the controlling Democratic Party due to widespread corruption throughout the state in the 1970s and 1980s, Thibodaux sought to enhance the position of Louisiana's Republican Party to restore a viable two-party system to his state. He served as a delegate to the 1988 [[Republican National Convention]], which met in New Orleans, and was elected to the Republican State Central Committee, where, as a member of The Louisiana Coalition against Racism and Nazism, he rallied against [[David Duke]]'s 1991 gubernatorial campaign.