From: Carolyn Mathews
Sent: March 21, 2016
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: RE: Disclosure Effectiveness Review

The public has lost trust, and you are one of the places that a fresh start to regain trust in the integrity, diligence, and ethics of the government can begin to be restored. This depends on your courage to step forward and do what needs to be done for transparency and accountability, and action to hold guilty parties liable.
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.

carolyn mathews

Columbia, MO