February 5, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
We as citizens have a right to know who is paying for the political messages that we see. Shareholders have a right to know what the companies that they own are doing. The SEC has the ability and the responsibility to require corporations to disclose their political spending.
60 of 100 S&P 100 companies already disclose their political spending, so this is not something that cannot be done or that is particularly controversial.
Please create a rule the requires corporations to disclose their political spending.
Sincerely,
Helen Bushnell