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.
As you well know, nearly 60% of the S&P 100 companies already voluntarily disclose their political spending to investors.
I look forward to your doing the right thing in this situation and not caving in to the same monied interests that crashed the economy in 2008 and more than likely will crash it again in the future.
Sincerely,
R DiGiovanni