From: Ron Barnette
Sent: March 18, 2016
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: RE: Disclosure Effectiveness Review

Our government is currently 'for sale'. With groups like alec writing laws and Senators getting those laws passed, we are at a tipping point. Remember, Rome had the best engineers and military in the world. No one believed they could ever fall from power. Internal corruption in their Senate became so profound they spent their time taking bribes and forgot to take care of their empire. Now, they are just a crappy little, insignificant city.

The SEC and its commissioners should continue to work on a rule requiring political disclosure from public companies, in the interests of their shareholders. Businesses should not be empowered to use backdoor political channels like nonprofits or associations to do their political bidding, and shareholders have a right to know how executives are using company resources for political purposes - especially if those purposes are against shareholders' interests.

Ron Barnette