From: David Davidson
Sent: March 18, 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.

In closing I want to ask this August body a simple and direct question: Why the need to hide?

More succinctly: What have financial investors, etc. got to hide anyway that they think they need a US Supreme Court Case like CitizensUnited to hide behind. Our elections, like our politicians should (do) belong to US, We the People!

Thank you very kindly for the chance to comment and pose some questions. Be well...

David Davidson