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Obama wasn’t ‘government by the people’

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama, center, greets supporters at a campaign event for U.S. Senate candidate Gary Peters and gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich.
FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama, center, greets supporters at a campaign event for U.S. Senate candidate Gary Peters and gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich. Pablo Martinez Monsivais ASSOCIATED PRESS

This is in response to H.E. Alison’s letter to the editor, who says that in the past it has been a “government by the people” and in the future it is going to be a “government by Trump.” Not sure what planet H.E. Alison et al have been living on for the past eight years, but how many executive orders did President Obama sign? So much for “government by the people​.”

​John Williamson

Ellenton

This story was originally published January 9, 2017 at 2:07 PM with the headline "Obama wasn’t ‘government by the people’."

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