April 4, 2014
SEC
I am deeply concerned about the influence of corporate money on our electoral process.
In particular, I am appalled that, because of the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, publicly traded corporations can spend investors' money in secret.
I am writing to urge the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue a rule requiring publicly traded corporations to publicly disclose all their political spending.
Both shareholders and the public must be fully informed as to how much the corporation spends on politics and which candidates are being promoted or attacked. Disclosures should be posted promptly on the SEC's web site.
I don't recall a single business or corporate SIGNATURE on either the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution. The USA was created by individual human beings to be a nation of and for people --
human people. The US Supreme Court is now the U$ $upreme Court -- it
has take the democratic ideal of a free nation with one person one vote and is transforming it into a corrupted capitalist society wherein one dollar has one vote.
Money is NOT "free speech". Ca$h is a $uper $tereo $urround $ound $ystem that drowns out the individual voices of "we, the people" human.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Loretta Dodd