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.
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.
The entire Supreme Court decision declairing Corporate entities to be the same as a person is rediculous enough but then to exclude them from public declarations of the contributions when a real person does not have that same right to exclusion really shows the partisan politics involved with all these decisions.
Sincerely,
Terrell Bennett