Baxley often is at the heart of controversy. Last year after 14 people died in nursing homes when Hurricane Irma cut the power, Baxley remarked that the storm shouldn’t be blamed for all those deaths because most were very old people who would have died soon anyway, regardless of whether they had air-conditioning. Maybe Baxley should tell that to the family of Gail Nova, 71, who had a body temperature of nearly 110 degrees when she died three days after Irma knocked out electricity to the Rehabilitation Center of Hollywood Hills, where eight patients were found dead and another six died after being rescued.