The Kitchen Cabinet: women fighting runaway government spending

This Kitchen Cabinet was formed by a group of committed women in 2009 to attract new women to politics — giving those who want to re-establish our free enterprise way of life a way to participate from their den, their car, their living room or, of course, their kitchen.  We are a growing force of women from all communities, age groups, ethnicities and economic levels; from the hourly worker praying for a raise to the work-at-home mom launching a new business.

What’s driving women in 2010 are bread-and-butter financial issues, the specter of rising federal debt and increased health insurance costs. They manage to balance the family budget and stretch pennies into dimes when they have to.  They figure it’s time governments did the same.  They want leaders who know what they know: You can’t spend what you don’t have, and you shouldn’t borrow from tomorrow to pay for today.  They figure it’s time for leaders who can get this country working again.  If our current ones won’t, they’re volunteering to be the ones who will.

According to a July 2010 poll taken by Kellyanne Conway/inc., 51 percent of women believe that “creating jobs” should be the number one priority for Congress and the President for the rest of this year, beating out six other issues. The same polling company also found that 71 percent of women believe that the federal government spends money in a “mostly inefficient” manner.

These women are fired up and ready to go. The 20th-century suffrage movement was “the beginning of a campaign the like of which was never known…” The Kitchen Cabinet will replicate that campaign this November, when women link arms and form a line to the polls. It’s time for a new generation of women to make history.

Sonja Eddings Brown is the President and Founder of The Kitchen Cabinet.us, an education reformer in California, and a long-time television and news producer.

For more information on The Kitchen Cabinet, contact Anne Schroeder Mullins, at anne@asmullins.com or 202-731-1992.