Subject: File No. 4-637

February 2, 2013

Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:

End secret political spending by corporations, such spending is dissonant with our basic American democratic principals, and I do not believe it serves shareholders either, since they are not informed.
 
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,

David Wemett