February 2, 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.
I strongly beleive Citizens United should be overturned and these strong rules should help. Perhaps the US Supreme Court will realize that corporations are not people and require that corporations must disclose their contributions to influence an election.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Hazel Bonner