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.
Even the citizen's united decision included an expectation of disclosure - certainly a corporation does not deserve a right to anonymous contributions or "political speech".
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Brian Jerose