February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
To allow any entity to bring influence to bear that threatens or dimminishes the true works of a Democracy, which is to provide food, shelter and solace to the most marginal of our population, is surely and obviously what our founders had in mind when they wrote the Constitution. To decide that these concerns are no longer relevant in this most difficult of times is unacceptable.
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,
jack guyot