February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
I cannot stress this strongly enough but its long past time to end secret political spending by corporations. I support your issuing a rule that will require publicly traded corporations to publicly disclose all 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, please.
I have expected perhaps more than private citizens are due- our trusting our government to protect us from deceit, and hope you will please protect Americans of both parties and provide information we deserve. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Joan Fassett