From: Paul Gregg
Sent: March 24, 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.

How is it possible for a corporate entity to have one uniform political stance? I have always thought that among the multitude of shareholders, there would be a wide variety of political opinions and desires? It appears that a few top executives can hijack all political speech to conform to their views only. This is not democratic capitalism.

Paul Gregg