From: Pamela Barr [psbemail@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:50 PM To: rule-comments@sec.gov Subject: S7-10-03 I support the SEC amending its rules to increase the shareholders' ability to pick corporate directors. It's clear that corporate boards have not been performing their fiduciary responsibilities as well as they could. World Com and Enron are just the worst of many examples. Allowing shareholders to have the ability to pick who should be considered for election to the board of directors of a corporation will increase their oversight of the board, and therefore of the company. It will also, potentially, put someone on the board who's not part of the "club" of people who sit on each others boards of directors, and who can ask tough questions. Confidence in the ability of our corporations to properly manage their operations and accurately report their financial condition is quite low in this country after all of these major coporate financial and accounting scandals. I believe that this proposal to increase shareholders' ability to select who goes on the board of directors would increase people's confidence in America's corporations and bolster the lagging stock market. I also support much tighter accounting controls, independent accountants and the serious punishment of those who were in senior level positions at companies such as Enron who ran their companies into the ground, while still personally profiting handsomely, at the expense of their workers and shareholders. Thank you Thank you __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com