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With all the troubles facing Mayor Vince Gray, plenty of residents are looking to two of the city’s former mayors to see if they’ll ever run again. And while Mayor Anthony Williams’ recent appointment to run an influential local organization has people guessing that he might be eying another mayoral run, the Washingtonian’s Harry Jaffe writes today that Mayor Adrian Fenty is plenty happy just being private citizen Fenty:

The short answer is no. The long answer is noooo. I cornered Fenty at a fundraiser and asked him if he was done with DC politics. He gave me that zany grin under startled eyes and said: “Done.”

Friends, allies and former staffers still in touch with Fenty say he has taken a guillotine to his decade in DC politics: from council staffer to council member to one term as mayor. He’s moved on, they say, with nary a glance back.

“He’s living the life,” Lynch says. “His wife and children are thrilled to have a real life outside the glare of the media. Who would want to give up the chance to spend time with their kids, take a vacation, compete in a triathlon without being taken to task?”

Fenty, 41, has stitched together a variety of gigs. A lawyer by training, he became special counsel last summer with the law firm Klores Perry Mitchell. Oberlin College, his alma mater, invited him to teach classes in government. He’s consulting on government contracting. He’s spending a lot of time with his twin sons and daughter, friends say.

“I don’t think Adrian would give up the money and the lifestyle,” says Tom Lindenfeld, a political adviser who helped elect Fenty in 2006. At 36, he was the youngest DC mayor. He won every precinct. “Why sacrifice the plaudits to prove that all over again?”

Names floated for the city’s next mayor have included Councilmembers Jack Evans (D-Ward 2), Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) and Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6); depending on what happens with Gray, D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson could find himself serving as the city’s first white mayor.