February 3, 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.
Citizens United is a treacherous and cynically insidious attempt to create a permanent elite class in this country, but this attempt only sows the seeds of total devastation of the middle class and destruction of our democracy in a way that no war or other catastrophe could ever accomplish.
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,
Michael Iverson