Hung Tung-kui says that when they received "pre-legislative training" together at the Revolutionary Pragmatism Research Institute on Yangmingshan, they felt they were full of enthusiasm but also new recruits who had to "learn a lot of things in a short period of time," so they decided to form a coalition to combine forces, exchange knowledge and experience and raise their effectiveness as legislators.
金釵之一洪冬桂表示，當選後她們同在陽明山革命實踐研究院受「職前訓練」時，彼此覺得都是滿腔熱血，但又同是新兵，經驗不足，得在「最短時間內學最多的事情」，有必要組成聯誼性組織，化零為整。