February 4, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
To an ordinary citizen, it looks as though our government in merely a marketplace mediating corporate agendas. It is dispiriting and no wonder no one wants to know anything about anything.
I taught college-level for 20 years. My students were disgusted and thought there was nothing 'regular people' could do when corporations have so much power--and when no one could even find out what they were up to with their financial clout. Nor could stop them when they interfere in local/state elections.
Please require disclosure of corporate political spending.
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,
liz waldner