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Baker subsequently joined the second Snyder administration as the utilities director, in which capacity he had warned that the city needed greater sources of energy to power the municipal-owned electric power system. Baker said that he remains "skittish" in regard to the "unreliable" Rodemacher No. 2 [[coal]]-fired plant near his native Boyce owned by the [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]]-based Central Louisiana Electric Company. Snyder announced that the city would by March 1984 have a suitable three-year contract with a company in [[Colorado]]. When a CLECO spokesman claimed that Baker was "blatantly inaccurate and totally inappropriate" about the Rodemacher plant, Baker replied that he was "blatantly accurate and totally appropriate." While he downplayed getting into a shouting match with CLECO, Baker said, "The corporate power squalls when its skin is pricked. … I have been reticent to discuss details of my negotiation for gas supplies for the city of Alexandria as it would have caused me to divulge the confidences of several suppliers."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/216161339/|title="Snyder: Cheaper Gas on the Way"|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=January 13, 1984|author=Jim Liggett|page=A2|accessdate=July 14, 2018}}</ref>

Baker subsequently joined the second Snyder administration as the utilities director, in which capacity he had warned that the city needed greater sources of energy to power the municipal-owned electric power system. Baker said that he remains "skittish" in regard to the "unreliable" Rodemacher No. 2 [[coal]]-fired plant near his native Boyce owned by the [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]]-based Central Louisiana Electric Company. Snyder announced that the city would by March 1984 have a suitable three-year contract with a company in [[Colorado]]. When a CLECO spokesman claimed that Baker was "blatantly inaccurate and totally inappropriate" about the Rodemacher plant, Baker replied that he was "blatantly accurate and totally appropriate." While he downplayed getting into a shouting match with CLECO, Baker said, "The corporate power squalls when its skin is pricked. … I have been reticent to discuss details of my negotiation for gas supplies for the city of Alexandria as it would have caused me to divulge the confidences of several suppliers."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/216161339/|title="Snyder: Cheaper Gas on the Way"|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=January 13, 1984|author=Jim Liggett|page=A2|accessdate=July 14, 2018}}</ref>

Baker died of a stroke at the age of sixty-six at Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria.<ref name=bakergeni/> He and his wife are interred at Alexandria Memorial Gardens.<ref name=alexandriamemorialgardens/>

Baker died of a stroke at the age of sixty-six at Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria. He and his wife are interred at Alexandria Memorial Gardens.<ref name=alexandriamemorialgardens/>

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