February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
Corporations are not people!! There is no justification for allowing corporate money to buy politicians votes!!! AND PARTICULARLY IN SECRET! As a retired J&J senior executive, I was proud when J&J fired a man who gave corporate money in an attempt to influence policy, during my tenure there!
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,
Gary Noble, MD