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. Our government is supposed to be "of the people, by the people and for the people,... with politicians spending most of their time in office raising money for the next re-election campaign, by courting corporate lobbyists, government turns away from citizens and becomes the tool of corporations serving the profits of CEO's and not the needs and rights and security of the citizens of the USA. Take corporate money out of politics!
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Geoffrey Reed