February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
If you have any allegiance to democracy (which most of us doubt),it is now time for corporations to be DEHUMANIZED. Not that they are not already of course, but I mean LEGALLY for the purposes of contributing to (read: buying!),elections! 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,
Carol Edwards