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In 1982, Brun was a member of the Caddo Parish Home Rule Study Commission, which laid the groundwork for the establishment in 1984 of the Caddo Parish Commission, the parish governing body that replaced the previous police jury. Brun is a member of the Caddo-Bossier Association of Retarded Children. He is a past president of the Ark-La-Tex Gun Collectors. He is a member of Kiwanis International. The Bruns are members of the Holy Cross [[Episcopal]] Church in downtown Shreveport.
In 1982, Brun was a member of the Caddo Parish Home Rule Study Commission, which laid the groundwork for the establishment in 1984 of the Caddo Parish Commission, the parish governing body that replaced the previous police jury. Brun is a member of the Caddo-Bossier Association of Retarded Children. He is a past president of the Ark-La-Tex Gun Collectors. He is a member of Kiwanis International. The Bruns are members of the Holy Cross [[Episcopal]] Church in downtown Shreveport.
==Early political activities==
==Early political activities==
In 1975, at the age of twenty-two, Brun ran unsuccessfully for state senator. At twenty-three and still in law school, Brun was one of the youngest delegates to the 1976 [[Republican National Convention]], which met in the Kemper Arena in [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]]. Like the majority of the Louisiana delegatees, Brun was committed to the insurgent challenge of former [[Governor]] [[Ronald W. Reagan]] of [[California]]. When Reagan's intraparty rival, [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford|Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]], narrowly won the [[Republican Party (United States)|GOP]] nomination, Brun with little enthusiasm at the time agreed to support the party ticket. In 1984, Brun was a Louisiana elector for Reagan and [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]].
In 1975, at the age of twenty-two, Brun ran unsuccessfully for state senator. At twenty-three and still in law school, Brun was one of the youngest delegates to the 1976 [[Republican National Convention]], which met in the Kemper Arena in [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]]. Like the majority of the Louisiana delegatees, Brun was committed to the insurgent challenge of former [[Governor]] [[Ronald W. Reagan]] of [[California]]. When Reagan's intraparty rival, [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald Ford|Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]], narrowly won the [[Republican Party (United States)|GOP]] nomination, Brun with little enthusiasm at the time agreed to support the party ticket. In 1984, Brun was a Louisiana elector for Reagan and [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]].
In 1978, Brun, the head of the Republican ballot security program, reported alleged vote-buying in Louisiana's 4th congressional district race between Republican [[Jimmy Wilson]] of Vivian in north Caddo Parish and the Democrat Anthony Claude "Buddy" Leach, then of Leesville in Vernon Parish. Leach defeated Wilson by 266 disputed votes in that race to succeed the retiring Democrat [[Joe Waggonner]]. In 1979, Brun uncovered a problem with seals on voting machines in Opelousas in St. Landry Parish in south Louisiana during the gubernatorial election. The serial numbers on the seals did not correspond with the tallies on the seals when the polls closed the Saturday night of the election, in which the Republican David Treen defeated the Democrat [[Louis Lambert]].<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' December 10–11, 1979.</ref>
In 1978, Brun, the head of the Republican ballot security program, reported alleged vote-buying in Louisiana's 4th congressional district race between Republican [[Jimmy Wilson]] of Vivian in north Caddo Parish and the Democrat Anthony Claude "Buddy" Leach, then of Leesville in Vernon Parish. Leach defeated Wilson by 266 disputed votes in that race to succeed the retiring Democrat [[Joe Waggonner]]. In 1979, Brun uncovered a problem with seals on voting machines in Opelousas in St. Landry Parish in south Louisiana during the gubernatorial election. The serial numbers on the seals did not correspond with the tallies on the seals when the polls closed the Saturday night of the election, in which the Republican David Treen defeated the Democrat [[Louis Lambert]].<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' December 10–11, 1979.</ref>
==The 1987 legislative election==
==The 1987 legislative election==