Subject: File No. 4-637

February 2, 2013

Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:

As a shareholder and as a voter I have a right to know where corporate profits are being spend, and who is buying influence into my elections. In 2012 we had foreign nations buying influence in our U.S. elections through campaign donations from multi national corporations. This is not the America that the Founders intended.

It's long past time to end secret political spending by corporations.
 
So I strongly support the SEC issuing a rule in the near future that would require publicly traded corporations to publicly disclose all their spending on political activities.

Both shareholders and the public deserve to know how much a given corporation spends on politics (directly and through intermediaries), and which candidates are being promoted or attacked.

Thank you for considering my comment.

 

Sincerely,

James Kelly