From: Jan Peterson
Sent: March 18, 2016
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: RE: Disclosure Effectiveness Review

Allowing unlimited contributions to political campaigns simply further empowers those with large amounts of money (i.e. those who already have the majority of power).

The SEC and its commissioners should continue to work on a rule requiring political disclosure from public companies, in the interests of their shareholders. If democracy depends upon an informed electorate (and it does), then this undermines democracy by allowing those with money to perpetuate self-serving propaganda without any way for the public to understand who is promoting what.

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.

Jan Peterson