Lenexa ? Democrat Paul Davis gave a sneak peek into the kind of administration he hopes to form in the governor’s office Thursday by announcing a bipartisan group of business leaders to serve as his campaign’s “business advisory council.”

“I’m pleased to introduce the economic sector champions who will work with my administration to bring business leaders and other stakeholders together to grow our economy, sector by sector,” Davis said during a news conference in Johnson County.

But when asked whether the group constitutes a short list of potential cabinet secretaries, Davis insisted he hasn’t begun thinking about that.

“It’s a preview of what kind of administration I want to have,” Davis said. “I intend on having the most bipartisan administration the state has ever seen.”

Davis’ advisory group, and the industry sectors they represent:

• Oil and gas: Jon Callen, president of Edmiston Oil Co. Inc., of Wichita; and Andrea Krauss, an executive with John O Farmer Inc. in Russell.

• Energy: Jim Haines, former CEO of Westar Energy in Topeka.

• Military: Rep. Melanie Meier, D-Leavenworth, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army; and Keith Humphrey, an aviation machinist’s mate first class in the U.S. Navy and president and CEO of Jet Airwerks LLC, in Arkansas City.

• Aviation: Charlie Johnson, former president and CEO of Cessna in Wichita.

• Agriculture: Adrian Polansky, Manhattan, who served as Kansas secretary of agriculture under Govs. Kathleen Sebelius and Mark Parkinson.

• Small Business: Keith Collins, president of the Garden City Chamber of Commerce and owner of Advanced Payment Systems; and Pete Gustaf, president of Red Route 1 LLC.

• Health care: Maynard Oliverius, former president and CEO of Stormont-Vail Healthcare in Topeka.

• Transportation: Mary Turkington, former managing director of the Kansas Motor Carrier Association and former chair of the Kansas Turnpike Authority.

• Technology: Lesa Mitchell, former vice president at the Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo.

Davis said his group stands in stark contrast to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s style of leadership.

“When he decided to conduct his economic experiment, he didn’t go out and convene a bunch of Kansas business leaders and ask them to assemble more leaders in their industry,” Davis said. “He decided to hire (economist) Art Laffer and pay him $75,000 of the taxpayers’ money to put together this ideological experiment that just hasn’t worked.”

Laffer served as an adviser in the Brownback administration and helped craft the governor’s proposal for cutting personal income taxes and phasing out corporate income taxes.

He also served as a presidential adviser to Ronald Reagan and is best known for his theory known as the Laffer Curve, which argues that cutting taxes can actually result in revenue growth by stimulating business activity.

But the Brownback campaign immediately criticized Davis’ announcement for lacking any specifics about his goals for the Kansas economy. Brownback has outlined such goals in his “Road Map 2.0” agenda, including the goal of adding 100,000 private-sector jobs to the Kansas economy over the next four years. But Brownback has offered few specifics about how he intends to achieve those goals.

“All we know right now about the Paul Davis economic plan is that he wants to raise taxes 17 percent on the poorest Kansas residents,” Brownback’s spokesman John Milburn said. It was a reference to Davis’ earlier statements that if elected he would call for freezing income tax rates and delaying future tax cuts scheduled to take effect under the bills that Brownback signed in 2012 and 2013.

Davis, however, has disputed the argument that freezing tax rates in their place, instead of allowing them to drop as scheduled, would constitute a tax increase.