From: Ruth Sheridan
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.

The upcoming presidential election campaigns sadly display all that's wrong with our electoral process. You have the power to correct this, and I hope you will do so. I want to know what's being done when my invested money is used to influence elections. I can't do this when contributions are secret.

Ruth Sheridan