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==Civic and political highlights==
==Civic and political highlights==
In 1986, Bacqué was the founding chairman of Leadership Lafayette, a program sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce to train community leaders.<ref name=acadian>{{cite web|url=http://www.acadianabusiness.com/turk-file/1306|title=Turk File 07.25.2007|publisher=acadianabusiness.com|accessdate=April 21, 2014}}</ref>
In 1986, Bacqué was the founding chairman of Leadership Lafayette, a program sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce to train community leaders.<ref name=acadian>{{cite web|url=http://www.acadianabusiness.com/turk-file/1306|title=Turk File 07.25.2007|publisher=acadianabusiness.com|accessdate=April 21, 2014; material no longer on-line}}</ref>
On October 24, 1987, Bacqué unseated the [[pro-life]] [[Republican Party|Republican]] state Representative [[Michael F. Thompson]] in the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]]. Thompson led a three-candidate field with 7,345 votes (45 percent) to Bacqué's 6,473 (40 percent). The remaining but critical 2,377 votes were polled by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Vance Lanier.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> In the November 21 [[general election]], the Lanier backers swung strongly to Bacqué, who prevailed, 6,811 (57 percent) to Thompson's 5,106 ballots (43 percent). Thompson's defeat was also attributed to the failure of some 2,200 Republican voters who participated in the primary to return to the polls for the second round of balloting. The successful Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, [[Paul Hardy]], won in Lafayette Parish over the Democratic incumbent [[Robert Freeman]] at the same time that Thompson was going down to defeat.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 21, 1987.</ref>
On October 24, 1987, Bacqué unseated the [[pro-life]] [[Republican Party|Republican]] state Representative [[Michael F. Thompson]] in the nonpartisan blanket [[primary]]. Thompson led a three-candidate field with 7,345 votes (45 percent) to Bacqué's 6,473 (40 percent). The remaining but critical 2,377 votes were polled by the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], Vance Lanier.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 24, 1987.</ref> In the November 21 [[general election]], the Lanier backers swung strongly to Bacqué, who prevailed, 6,811 (57 percent) to Thompson's 5,106 ballots (43 percent). Thompson's defeat was also attributed to the failure of some 2,200 Republican voters who participated in the primary to return to the polls for the second round of balloting. The successful Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, [[Paul Hardy]], won in Lafayette Parish over the Democratic incumbent [[Robert Freeman]] at the same time that Thompson was going down to defeat.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 21, 1987.</ref>