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.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Even back in the 1930's, Will Rogers commented: "America has the best politicians money can buy!" Now, every election, candidates are telling me: "I will fight for you!" It sure would be nice to know who owned a candidate before I voted for him.
Sincerely,
CT Foster