Stop Secret Corporate Political Spending

The Securities and Exchange Commission

Publicly-traded corporations are spending unlimited amounts of money in elections to support anti-worker candidates and, because of Citizens United and other recent legal decisions, they don't have to disclose any of it. If companies make political spending choices that diverge from their stated values or policies, endanger the company’s brand, or embroil it in hot-button issues it also puts shareholders and retirement funds for working families at risk.

Right now, the Securities and Exchange Commission is taking public comments on a rule that would require publicly-traded companies to disclose their political spending. Fill out the form to the right to send a comment now to the SEC.

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Washington, DC

To: The Securities and Exchange Commission
From: [Your Name]

I am very concerned about what secret, corporate spending is doing to our democracy.

The SEC is supposed to protect shareholders and investors. My retirement funds are invested in the companies that are regulated by the SEC.

Even though U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called for full disclosure of corporate political spending to shareholders in Citizens United, the SEC has yet to take action to protect investors.

I am writing to urge the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue a rule requiring publicly-traded corporations to disclose all of their political spending.

Investors and all Americans have the right to know how much the corporations they own spend on politics and which candidates are being promoted or attacked.

Thank you.

Sincerely,