From: R. Jerome Ricard
Sent: March 19, 2016
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: RE: Disclosure Effectiveness Review

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.

Everyday citizens have the right to know who is paying for/buying a particular politician. Our so called "Democracy" is being destroyed.

R. Jerome Ricard

Simi Valley, CA