Jan. 10, 2020
Rule Comments, Corporate CEOs want the SEC to make it harder to submit shareholder proposals at company annual meetings. These shareholder proposals encourage companies to act more responsibly on important social policy issues such as reforming executive pay, respecting human rights and protecting the environment. Working people are invested in companies through our retirement savings, like my 401(k). We depend on shareholder proposals as part of a democratic process that holds corporate CEOs accountable. Real Main Street investors like myself and my better half, who are retired from the legal profession and from providing services to non-profits, respectively, oppose making it harder for all Main Street investors to file shareholder proposals. John Wienert [redacted]