Which challenger will it be? Not long after D.C. Council Chair Vince Gray and multimillionaire businessman Don Peebles were spotted having breakfast together on Wednesday morning, WUSA9’s Bruce Johnson snags the latest Peebles interview. Peebles told Johnson that he’s trying to get Gray to decide sooner rather than later — by the end of the year, even — whether he’s going to run for mayor against Adrian Fenty. Because if Gray doesn’t, Peebles says he will.

The mere suggestion that this kind of agreement might exist between the two potential candidates is telling. When Peebles first announced he was pondering throwing his hat into the race, he emphasized that his preference might be to serve as the key fundraiser for a challenger of his choosing, rather than running himself. Would Gray have Peebles’s money and connections fully behind him, should he choose to run? It’s starting to sound that way.