February 4, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
It's long past time to end secret political spending by corporations. This insdier coercion used against the independent minds of candidates is preventing every reform we need--from weapons bans to changes in energy accountability to curtailing of pollution to rebuilding our infrastructure.
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. It's not the enitre answer to freeing public officers from the influence of regressuive corporate unindicted criminals and would be wrongdoers. But it is a minimal start/.
Both shareholders and the public deserve to know how much a given corporation spends on politics, (directly and through intermediaries), and which candidates and potentiial useful or fanatical policies are being promoted or attacked.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Robert Cerello