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. If public corporations are proud of their political affiliations, they have no need to lurk in the shadows, unseen. What are they ashamed of? Only those who have something they want to hide, that they are not especially proud of doing, need to operate underground.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Bonnie Owens