From: rfinlins@lsil.com
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:58 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: S7-19-03

I support the rule to allow investors access to board member nominations.
As an individual investor, I am disgusted and alarmed at how little public
companies are accountable to share holders.  With the massive bankruptcies
and corporate looting taking place under the nose of the SEC, it is high time
for the SEC to do what it is paid to do;  protect the investing public,
not the looters and pillagers that sit on boards of public companies.
The new rule is a VERY SMALL step forward and I strongly encourage
the SEC to build upon this baby step with some real and much more meaningful
reform that truly protects investors.

Thank you.

Rick Finlinson
Oregon