February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
It's long past time to end secret political spending by corporations.
So I strongly support the SEC issuing a rule in the near future that would require publicly traded corporations to publicly disclose all their spending on political activities.
Both shareholders and the public deserve to know how much a given corporation spends on politics (directly and through intermediaries), and which candidates are being promoted or attacked.
Our votes as individuals ought to count, not the monies of corporations or "secret monies, secret peoples, secret corporations". Our nation has been bought for far too long!
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Teresa Van Etten