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

The SEC and its commissioners should continue to work on a rule requiring political disclosure from public companies, in the interests of their shareholders. 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.

We must get corporate money out of politics. Citizens United has helped turn our democracy into an oligarchy. Democracy has been stripped from the hands of the ordinary American and sold to the highest corporate and ultra rich bidders. Please help restore our country and democracy.

Melanie Sinclair