(Editor’s Note: State Representative Gabe Firment of Colfax, sent the following letter to the editor of The Advocate in Baton Rouge in response to a story appearing in the paper on August 23rd. Firment concluded the letter noting that he proudly serves Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Red River and Winn Parishes. The Advocate story can be found at https:// www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/ coronavirus/article_34dfde20-0356-11ecb544-97ccd3771d44.html.)