A campaign to force disclosure of corporate political spending has bombarded the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with more than 1 million comments since 2011 — too many to ignore, according to a law professor behind the effort and his supporters.
Standing in front of SEC headquarters in Washington on Sept. 4, professor Robert Jackson Jr. of Columbia Law School and other investor advocates called on agency chairwoman Mary Jo White to reconsider his 2011 petition to require public companies to inform shareholders about their political spending.
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