Brain Trust

The idea of a Brain Trust to help a preferred candidate: in my case Amy or secondarily, Mayor Pete, gets its tradition from FDR.  It was a term coined by James Kieran, a New York Times reporter, referring to a group of academic advisers that FDR gathered to assist him during the 1932 presidential campaign. Initially, the term applied to three Columbia University professors: Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy Tugwell, and Adolph A. Berle, Jr. Within a few months, Basil ("Doc") O'Connor, Samuel I. Rosenman, and Hugh Johnson would join the group. These men would quickly help FDR develop an economic plan whose programs became the backbone of the New Deal: regulation of bank and stock activity, large scale relief, and public works programs for people living in both urban and rural areas.

Why would I want a Brain Trust right now?  It will MAKE NEWS.  It will make my preferred candidate more interesting to those who so far dismiss him or her.  Especially in the case of Mayor Pete, one of the major criticisms facing him is that he lacks enough experience, and that he does not resonate with African American voters.    But wonder if he had people in his Brain Trust who helped him make up those deficits?  I don't mean a huge group of people...The FDR Brain Trust started out with three men.  Three more were added.  Six people in all.  They helped set the agenda for the New Deal.  We are in a similar state - that is we are a country are in crisis -  Environmental, haves and have nots, health insurance,  immigration, moral standing of the U.S.,   the move of the country toward autocratic government,  WHAT ELSE?

My question to you is WHO would you select for a presidential candidate Brain Trust: may be different list for Amy and for Pete.   They have different deficits??  So - as you suggest names, say which deficit the individual is filling.  A total of six names for each candidate, ...