From: Karl Meller
Sent: March 20, 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.
Recently I finished Jane Mayer's Dark Money and now I think it is essential for big money to have to be up front on to whom they donate. To allow this dark money to stay dark is a threat to the independnence of the United States

karl meller