February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
I am fed up with the SEC staff conflict of interest connections with the entities you are supposed to regulate.
And I am totally opposed to the SCOTUS' decision vav Citizens United. I want it overturned. In the meantime, you must demand disclosure of the "donations" ie bribes corporations pay to all poltical entities.
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,
Kate McDermott