February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
We the people have the right to know where, when and how our public representives are receiving corporate money.
How can you accept this secret political funding when we the people pay you to govern by majority rule? Thats like me working for Wal Mart and Target paying me to give them information on the "black Friday" items. The last I knew that was illegal and against moral code and my sense of fair play.
You can call this behavior anything you want but no matter what the Surpreme Court ruling, corporations are not people.
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,
Lorraine Brown