February 3, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
In spite of what the Supreme Court says, corporations are NOT people. They have no business having more clout in our elections than individual voters have. Many of these corporations are not even American.
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,
Nancy Koller