February 2, 2013
To The Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
Voters NEED to know where the money comes from in politics. If corporations are "people", then they need to abide by the same rules I have to abide by. One corporation one vote etc., limits on the amount an individual corporation can spend on an election. That information is public.
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 the 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,
Ms K Riley