From: L. Baker
Sent: March 19, 2016
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: RE: Disclosure Effectiveness Review

The SEC and its commissioners should require 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.
But in these days of increased power from corporations, the general electorate has a right to know how corporations spend their political money. Otherwise, the US will become encumbered by undemocratic, oligarchic rule by the wealthy few.

L Baker