From: Miles, Kendall R, WCS [kmiles@att.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 3:00 AM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: S7-19-03

I fully support allowing investor-sponsored nominees on proxy ballots for 
corporate boards. This is just what we need to shake up the still far-too-cozy 
relationship between corporate board officers and the executives that run the 
companies. We need investor-sponsored members of these boards to break up the 
often lazy, self-serving boards and replace them with active ones who will call 
company executives on their mistakes, agitate for improved shareholder value, 
and give the shareholders more of a say in running the companies they partly 
own, instead of having to deal with an entrenched corporate board structure that 
goes against the very values of transparency and good corporate governance the 
SEC is supposed to work to instill in American companies.

Kendall Miles