February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
There is a lot of wisdom in the advice to "Consider the source." Our democracy would be strengthened and economic choices would be better informed if shareholders and the public would be enabled to know the specifics of political spending by corporations.
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,
Nadine Halusic