February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
Corporations should not be able to influence elections at all. Since they are allowed to, the least you can do is make sure we know how much they're spending and whom they're giving it to.
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.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Peter Bergel