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Real estate mogul (and D.C. native) Don Peebles is thinking about giving Mayor Adrian Fenty a run for his money, according to a report this morning in the Washington Business Journal. Peebles told reporter Jonathan O'Connell that he will 'either run himself or support another candidate because of what he called "a continued pattern of a lack of oversight and accountabilty" under Fenty.' Harry Jaffe had previously reported the Peebles rumors in the Examiner, though the possibility that the businessman could run himself is a new development.

Via the DCist tipline, we learn that D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty may actually face some "super" serious competition in his upcoming reelection campaign. A web site promoting Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, for mayor of D.C. has popped up, along with the requisite Facebook page and Twitter feed.

When we reported last week that Council member Michael Brown (I-At Large) might be pondering a 2010 run against Mayor Adrian Fenty, we got just a little excited for the storyline possibilities. After all, both men are bald lawyers from Ward 4 with twin sons. But today City Desk's Mike DeBonis is telling us something that could only make the coming mayoral showdown that much more exciting -- Council member Kwame Brown (D-At Large) might run. According to DeBonis, Brown's father sent out an email over the weekend looking to get people to "draft" the younger Brown for a run at Fenty's seat. Of course, Brown was coy about the whole thing, though he didn't definitively rule out a 2010 campaign for the city's highest elected position. Should he run? Duh. More than one Brown in the race would be fantastic. Especially if the two Browns had run on a "Brown-squared" platform in the 2008 council election, which they did. Throw in Shadow Senator Michael Brown and you've got the makings of total electoral chaos! Fenty v. Brown v. Brown v. Brown? Yes, please.