TO DO: Disclosure of Campaign Contributions
Source: Public Citizen

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9213

Curb the Corporate Agenda of Activist CEOs

Join More than 600,000 Activists in Telling the SEC to Expose the Hidden Influence of Corporate Money

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has responded to the public’s demands for corporate accountability. A proposed rule requiring publicly traded corporations to disclose their political contributions is on the SEC’s official agenda.

Send YOUR message TODAY! Tell the SEC to require corporations to disclose their political spending, and to do it this year.

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Subject: Comment on File Number 4-637

Your Letter:

I am writing to urge the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue a rule requiring publicly traded corporations to publicly disclose all their political spending – and to do so this year.

“Dark money” groups that accept contributions from corporations, but are not required to publicly identify their corporate donors, spent millions of dollars during the 2012 elections. It is a scandal that money from publicly traded corporations – which belongs to investors – can be secretly spent to distort our democracy.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission created the loophole that enables this secret spending, but the SEC has the authority to close it.

Both shareholders and the public must be fully informed as to how much corporations spend on politics and which candidates are being promoted or attacked. Disclosures should be posted promptly on the SEC’s web site.

Thank you for considering my comment.

Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, NEWashington, DC 20549

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