From: Joe LaTorre [jlatorre@eosaustin.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 3:15 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: S7-19-03

As a small individual investor , I have been disappointed for many years at
the lack of input allowed by our current method of corporate governance. I
strongly urge you to adopt rules allowing for some "real" input into board
elections. Even though this proposed rule change has a high hurdle to
overcome before it would allow investor candidates on proxy voting, I
believe it should be taken as a first step, with even more meaningful
changes adopted in the near future. How about internet "primaries" with a
suitable number of the top vote receivers in a proxy "run-off".

						  THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION,
								JOE LATORRE