February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
It's long past time to end secret political spending by corporations.
Why shouldn't we know which companies support which canidates as well as who is paying for various political advertisments? When I make a contribution, I have to indicate my employerer, so why shouldn't CEOs and corporations be the same? They are people just like me according to the Supreme Court.
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,
Robert James Iv