Sent: February 4, 2013
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: File No. 4-637

Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:

Hard-working, tax-paying citizens are entitled to a few rights in this day of corporate takeover of seemingly everything, from influence peddling to rigging the markets, tax subsidies, non-payment of taxes and non-disclosure. It's long past time to end secret political spending by corporations. The public trust has been profoundly undermined by corporate power.

So I strongly support the SEC to issue 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 taking this issue seriously. It's a matter of preserving fairness and democracy!

Sincerely,
Genny Lim