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

In a democracy we cast our votes based on a general understanding of which priorities and policies a candidate for office will support. Candidates lay out their positions and we select the candidate that most closely alligns with our values. We then have some confidence that the office holder will legislate and spend our tax dollars in ways that we approve.

However shareholders in corporations have no such assurances that the monies they have invested with a company are being used in ways that would meet with their approval. The shareholders money may, in fact, be used to promote an agenda that is totally in contradiction to the values and best interests of the shareholder.

The SEC and its commissioners should continue to work on a rule requiring full disclosure from public companies of all political contriibutions. It is the shareholder's right to know how executives are using company resources for political purposes — especially if those purposes are against shareholders' interests.

Shareholders, like citizens, need more information, not less, in order to make an informed decision about their investments. Please use your authority to require corporate transparency.

Marie Anderson