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Governor Foster said that his friend Picard "made a lot of headway [toward improving education]. He did a good job, and I never heard anyone say he didn't."
Governor Foster said that his friend Picard "made a lot of headway [toward improving education]. He did a good job, and I never heard anyone say he didn't."
Picard was succeeded in the state Senate by Democrat [[Gerald J. Theunissen]] of Jennings, who defeated the Republican state party chairmanMike Francis of Crowley in Acadia Parish. Theunissen himself later switched to Republican affiliation. He was succeeded as education superintendent by Paul G. Pastorek (born 1954), who was retained by the board in 2008, with the support of Republican Governor [[Bobby Jindal]], but left the post in 2011.
Picard was succeeded in the state Senate by Democrat [[Gerald J. Theunissen]] of Jennings, who defeated the Republican state party chairmanMike Francis of Crowley in Acadia Parish. Theunissen himself later switched to Republican affiliation. He was succeeded as education superintendent by [[Paul Pastorek]], who was retained by the board in 2008, with the support of Republican Governor [[Bobby Jindal]], but left the post in 2011.
==Death and legacy==
==Death and legacy==