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.
I am thoroughly disgusted with our political process and the unlimited amounts of money from those who do not care about the average citizen trying to influence our elections. Since, for now, we must live with this unfortunate Supreme Court ruling, we must make these contributions as transparent as possible.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Patricia Hegger