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 have never had a problem with corporations until Citizen's United ruling. Now with our corporations going global, they have no alliance to the United States or its people. The least we can do is make corporate financial influence on our politics and government transparent, since they no longer have the interests of the United States at heart.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Sincerely,
Lewis Bottomly