From: disclosureeffectiveness-96.htm
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.
The idea that corporations are people and that money is speech is ridiculous ! The fact that one hundred people spent more money on winning races in 11 early States than the 2,000,000 small contributors is more than ridiculous, it is obscene.
I have to give information on who I am and what sort of work I do and am limited in what I can give to candidates. Why don't the same rules apply to corporations?

Robert Ball