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.
Verizon & AT&T & Comcast are so very generous to "our" legislators, that these outfits, among others, have been awarded Billions & Billions annually, to pay for upgrading the network infrastructure. So what to these unregulated monopolies do????? More Bonuses for operating unregulated monopolies while cheating the rest of us. Secret Contributions are the enabling tool which these greedy pigs use to persuade legislators to allow them to cheat us.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Dennis Shultz