It isn’t often that you run into a bit of humor while reviewing reports of campaign contributions and expenditures filed with the State Campaign Spending Commission.
But…while going through last week’s filings, I noticed something in reports filed by the campaign of City Council member and mayoral candidate Kymberly Pine which provided me a chuckle.
Candidates and their campaigns are required to disclose the name and address of each person contributing more than $100, plus employer and occupation of anyone whose contributes a total of more than $1,000.
Buried among contributions received in that latter part of 2016 was this item, a $1,000 contribution from Renee Mola of an Austin, Texas address.
And there it was. Occupation–Domestic Goddess.
If the print is too small to read, click for a larger version.
Renee Mola is married to Franco J. Mola, whose $2,000 contribution to Pine’s campaign appeared in an amended report from the same period.
Franco Mola is a developer, listed in state business registration records as CEO of MJF Development and president of Coastal Rim Properties, which have projects in Pine’s district.
A further search of Pine’s records found the “Domestic Goddess” label had been applied to 14 contributions by eight women between 2016 and the latest report last week.
All appear to be wives or partners of prominent men.
In any case, thanks to Kym Pine for adding a bit of levity to an otherwise tedious task.
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“. . . disclose the names of all contributors of more than $100 along with identifying information, including address, employer, and occupation.”
I thought perhaps the law had changed, and I felt a bit of panic there. Employer and occupation information is only required for amounts totaling $1,000 or more.
Yes, you’re right. Thanks for the reminder. I’m digging through the major contributors, so I forgot to be specific.
Several of the Domestic Goddesses are described as “Self Employed”, which sounds right. Goddesses don’t have bosses.
Lot of misinformation here, but the Mayoral smear campaign has started. I have a good guess who sent this and which candidate is behind this, but will let you do your own research and conclusions. Hint, someone you’ve written about before: Lokahi Cuban.
https://mailchi.mp/bc48b0b779cb/defending-our-islands-from-corruption-in-this-campaign?e=630b880226
Purely indignant women!
The domestic goddesses are a throw back to the 1950’s Plantation Managers wife’s. Kept in there place by manipulating feudal lord‘S of wealth and power.
Useful, for money laundering via political donation in today’s world. The Goddesses, only leverage in life is a substantial division of assets by Divorce.