re: Gary Chambers is a really fun follow on facebook....He's also really fat

The thing that pisses me off the most is that I've been a practicing professor of economics for almost 20 years and not one single thing this dude says makes any sense to me. For a host of various reasons.

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You lied in November and said that “developers aren’t interested in north Baton Rouge” so Councilwoman Banks and I held conference calls with businesses from out of state, and found out it was a lie. The city-parish has given the Baton Rouge Area Chamber millions of dollars to help with economic development, we just haven’t seen it spread around the parish equitably.

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First, I can say with near 100% certainty that if an economic-driver business wanted to open up at Prescott and Foster the Baton Rouge Area Chamber would have zero issue with recruiting them to that location. In fact, they spent the greater part of 18 months recruiting Hawker-Beechcraft to locate in North BR.

Second, I find that people have this misconception of "economic development". It isn't the opening of a convenience store, sandwich shop, or clothing boutique. It's the establishment of manufacturing facilities and software development centers.

Get this...Gary thinks that Mayor Holden personally forbid chairs to be delivered to Gary's silly townhall with crazy Chuana Banks. It's just a big conspiracy against Gary and Chauna apparently. Hahahahah these people are totally absolutely nuts.

Too bad Mayor Holden withheld resources AGAIN from the great people of NBR. This time, he went so low as to withhold chairs from the people. What else can this evil man do to NBR? Chairs? How low can he go?!! One thing is for sure -- SBR always has chairs, everywhere!! We want equity of chairs in NBR! When will this madness stop?!!! We just want chairs just like the white people on SBR! Stop withholding chairs from NBR!! Black people need chairs too!!!

The comments are just as dumb as the post, as usual.

And apparently a police report was filed against Gary for him calling the mayor's chief of staff. Hahahahah

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Thank you Kimberly D. Square for taking a picture. Mayor Kip Holden did not allow chairs to be delivered for the community meeting in north Baton Rouge today about healthcare progress. Councilwoman Chauna Banks still hosted a productive meeting. The questions from the community and comments were great and encouraging. A very well educated community. Too bad our mayor again withheld resources from north Baton Rouge. You can keep thinking I'm just picking on Kip, but the man really has a problem. He would've never made residents in south BR or Downtown have a meeting by a council member absent of chairs. The man has really started to lose it. I almost feel sorry for him.

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So some shitty human being leaves their child in a hot car and Gary the retard blames everyone but the piece of crap father. Gary has no shame and is willing to exploit a child's death of web traffic. No shame.

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Some may not like me speaking on the lack of ER with the young girl that passed away, but I rather talk about solving a problem than blaming the family that is grieving.

We should be solving this problem, so that no family has to drive to a facility that can't help them.

Let us all keep the Mercer family in our thoughts and prayers. Some will think the time to write this story is too soon, but how long should we wait to hold our elected officials accountable. The sooner we solve the access to healthcare problem, the sooner we are able to prevent this from happening to another young child. Her father clearly tried to save her life by taking her to Baton Rouge General Mid-City, it is unfortunate that we as a community haven’t done more to make sure that people who live, work, and play in north Baton Rouge have access to emergency care. How long should we wait? Some will say I’m not a healthcare expert, which is true. I am a father of a little girl who wants her to have access to emergency care in the event of an emergency in her community.

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An 8 month old, Raylee Mercer was found unresponsive in her father’s car this afternoon in north Baton Rouge. Her father a baseball coach at Madison Prep High School in Baton Rouge, forgot his daughter in his vehicle today. After two hours he found young Raylee Mercer unresponsive in the vehicle. The father drove to Baton Rouge General Mid-City to seek treatment for his daughter. She died.

Baton Rouge General Mid-City closed its emergency room last year. Since then mid-city Baton Rouge and north Baton Rouge have gone without emergency room access. Scott Wester CEO of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge’s safety net hospital said in April in The Advocate, “It is a myth that north Baton Rouge needs an emergency room.” Now Our Lady of the Lake has presented a plan to Gov. John Bel Edwards to open what they are calling an “Advanced Care Center” at their Airline Hwy urgent care clinic. This is an attempt by Our Lady of the Lake to keep Gov. John Bel Edwards from appropriating funds to the Champion Medical Center Emergency Room project.

Gov. Edwards said at the Louisiana Health Summit that he is committed to opening an emergency room in north Baton Rouge. Yet, when a plan was presented by the #NBRNow Blue Ribbon Commission, Gov. Edwards allowed state funds to go to Our Lady of the Lake for yet another urgent care clinic on Florida Blvd.

North Baton Rouge law makers have expressed frustration with Gov. Edwards not moving forward with the Champion Medical Center ER Project. State Sen. Regina Barrow said in a press release, “I am disappointed that we are ending this regular session without being able to address the critical health care needs of the citizens of North Baton Rouge. However, I am resolved to continue to work on this issue with all of the parties involved, including Champion Medical Center which has really stepped up to the plate to try to help the community.”

State Rep. Edmond Jordan in the same press release stated, “OLOL CEO Scott Wester said that it was a “myth” that North Baton Rouge needs an emergency room. Which begs the question, if its CEO is saying and its data is showing that an emergency room is not needed in North Baton Rouge, why is OLOL suddenly interested in providing emergency room services in North Baton Rouge?”

Even State Rep. Ted James commented, “Champion Medical Center brought this issue to the forefront.” Which he applauded them for.

Yet Gov. Edwards isn’t prioritizing the healthcare of the residents of north Baton Rouge. It is shameful that a father in a desperate situation to save the life of his 8 month old daughter had no options within driving distance to save his daughters life.

The Champion Medical Center facility is only 5 miles away, which is about 9 minutes from the location Raylee Mercer was located. While Our Lady of the Lake and Baton Rouge General are both 9 miles away. A 20 minute or more drive, depending on Baton Rouge traffic. Gov. Edwards is entertaining distractions when a willing party has stepped to the table with a plan to open an emergency room by January of 2017.

These are the type of actions I would expect from a republican like Bobby Jindal, but 98% of north Baton Rouge voted for John Bel Edwards and they are seemingly not a priority. The greater question is, how many situations like Raylee Mercer are happening in north Baton Rouge daily, that don’t make the evening news? How many people are dying due to a lack of access to healthcare?

Gov. Edwards made a promise to north Baton Rouge, and he is choosing to delay fulfilling that promise. Much like he has delayed other campaign promises. As someone who voted for Gov. Edwards I am quickly losing confidence in him – because the healthcare of the citizens of this state should never be a game of politics. Gov. Edwards didn’t need anyone else to make this project happen. It has the support of both Republicans and Democrats in both houses of the Louisiana Legislature.

Our Lady of the Lake is stalling progress by pitching a half baked healthcare solution for north Baton Rouge and it’s disgraceful. How many people have to die while we debate which plan, when months ago OLOL and every other hospital in Baton Rouge said no, they would not open an ER in north Baton Rouge. Even the plan Our Lady of the Lake submitted is not an ER. It is a glorified urgent care clinic and they should be ashamed of stalling progress in the name of greed.

Gov. Edwards needs to answer how many black people in north Baton Rouge will die under his watch because there is no access to healthcare. The state may be in a financial crisis, but he is still cutting checks to Our Lady of the Lake for projects that don’t address the critical need of access to emergency care in north Baton Rouge.

Call the office of the governor and leave a message that you would like to see him fund the Champion Emergency Room Project in this special session (225)342-7015 or email by clicking HERE.

We can’t allow Gov. Edwards to ignore the critical need of north Baton Rouge.

Let us all keep the Mercer family in our thoughts and prayers. Some will think the time to write this story is too soon, but how long should we wait to hold our elected officials accountable. The sooner we solve the access to healthcare problem, the sooner we are able to prevent this from happening to another young child. Her father clearly tried to save her life by taking her to Baton Rouge General Mid-City, it is unfortunate that we as a community haven’t done more to make sure that people who live, work, and play in north Baton Rouge have access to emergency care. How long should we wait? Some will say I’m not a healthcare expert, which is true. I am a father of a little girl who wants her to have access to emergency care in the event of an emergency in her community.

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I was wondering when Fat Gary would be on this story.

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For everyone who is angry that I spoke about the issue with no emergency rooms in NBR when the father tried to get his daughter to a hospital here is my response. It's logic. The man made a mistake and he tried to take his daughter to hospital. Yet there is no emergency care for people in north Baton Rouge. Would the young girl have lived we don't know. What we do know is there was no emergency care to assist in her survival. So yes, this is an issue and one we shouldn't wait to talk about. There is a plan on the governors desk he can act on NOW, to help prevent this from happening in the future. You may want to waste time talking about the father, I want to talk about how we can ensure families don't show up to places that can't help them... Look at the maps for yourself.

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and he lives in Shenandoah

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People will still show up without insurance and expect care.

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Whoa now, I thought everyone had insurance now thanks to Obama.

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Whoa now, I thought everyone had insurance now thanks to Obama.

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Lucas Hornsby What is sad for the liberal democrats in NBR ... Your president's signature policy was meant to bring you healthcare insurance. The fact that that law has failed and the lack of insured is what actually caused the closing is both laughable and sad!

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What I don't understand is, if the General ER was losing $25M a year, what makes Gary think that this crappy Champion facility will be any different? People will still show up without insurance and expect care. That's never going to change. So how does Chamption expect to make money and stay open?

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he doesn't want it to make money. he wants the state to fund the operation and cover the losses

really he just wants an issue to stay relevant, but that's something else

i follow him on FB but never respond. i almost did yesterday but resisted. i want him on my podcast