February 3, 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.
This requirement to disclose all political spending activities will allow the citizens of this country to be better educated about who is suppporting which candidates and political activities. We need full disclosure to ensure transparency. Corporate political spending should not be allowed to be secret.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Lauren Gusinow