February 1, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
It's long past time to end secret political spending by corporations.
So I strongly support the SEC issuing a rule in the near future that would require publicly traded corporations to publicly disclose all their spending on political activities.
Both shareholders and the public deserve to know how much a given corporation spends on politics (directly and through intermediaries), and which candidates are being promoted or attacked.
It's bad enough that our elections now are funded by the uber-wealthy, negating the one person-one vote premise this Nation was founded on, but now they don't even have to mention who it is that bought the vote.
In light of the fact that the vast majority of political contests are won by the persons who spend the most money, this whole post-Citizens united nonsense is nothing shy of nauseating, and a form of quasi-fascism that Mussolini himself would be so proud of.
Do the right thing, or get out of the way for others who will.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Dirk Nelson