February 2, 2013
Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
Every day faceless corporations buy politicians and the political process in this country. Five misguided members of the Supreme Court may consider corporations equal to human beings in terms of their ability to buy our elections, but like real human beings, those self-same corporations shouldn't be able to hide behind a company logo.
Prostitution is illegal in this country and so are pimps. But if the SEC doesn't reform the rules that let corporations hide their political spending, you are guilty of aiding and abetting human political trafficking.
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.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Donna Seymour