From: Nancy Parker
Sent: March 18, 2016
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: RE: Disclosure Effectiveness Review

The SEC and its commissioners should continue to work on a rule requiring political disclosure from public companies, in the interests of their shareholders. Businesses should not be empowered to use backdoor political channels like nonprofits or associations to do their political bidding, and shareholders have a right to know how executives are using company resources for political purposes — especially if those purposes are against shareholders' interests.
If "corporations are people" (which I dispute), then they are collective people, and all parts of them should be making decisions about political spending. Otherwise, the CEO is just ripping off everyone else's right to political expression by spending their money HIS way.

Nancy Parker