Sent: February 4, 2013
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: Comment on File Number 4-637

Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:

First.....imagine your representative or senator was elected....even tho the polls show that person was trailing badly....but somehow he/she won the election....and now we are surprised at the voting record...how do we find out who BOUGHT our representative's vote, what person or corporation???
Please tell me we will know sooner, rather than later.  Thank you.

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,