Subject: File No. 4-637

February 2, 2013

Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:

With inequality of financial resources in influencing law and government practice having unaccountably and wrongly found Constitutional, one of the few means of limiting complete corruption of the government and the political process is complete transparency in how political activity and advocacy are financed.

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,

Lawrence Sullivan, PhD