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.
No matter what the supreme court judges may say, I oppose having corporations buy votes. I go to the polls and get to vote one time; that is the way our forefathers planned the process, and it took a long time to give women the opportunity to have ONE VOTE, so the fact that corporations can dump loads of money into the voting process is wrong and very offensive to me.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Virginia Pence