Recalling an elected official in the District, especially one elected citywide, takes organization and money. The money might be coming for an effort top recall Mayor Vince Gray — and from a man that supported him in the 2010 mayoral race.
Today, Mayor Vince Gray announced two new major senior appointments for his troubled administration — Chris Murphy as his Chief of Staff and Andrea Pringle as his Deputy Chief of Staff, the latter responsible for one of the hardest-hitting campaign mailers put out during the divisive 2010 mayoral contest.
Don Peebles, the District’s longest-running mayoral non-candidate, appeared this morning on WPFW radio, where he finally announced that no, he won’t be running for mayor. Mike Neibauer of the Washington Business Journal tweeted: “Peebles ‘planned to run as an independent,’ he tells Jonetta. ‘You never say never, but I do not plan to be a candidate.'” Finally. Some closure. Since late last year, Peebles has publicly toyed with the idea of bringing his total lack…
Real estate developer Don Peebles has been playing the “Maybe I will, maybe I won’t” game since late last year on whether he’ll jump into the District’s mayoral contest. But even an admonition from WRC/NBC4’s Tom Sherwood (or DCist’s own Sommer Mathis, for that matter) hasn’t made Peebles any more resolute on whether or not to run. In a post over the weekend to what appears to be his brand new Twitter account, Peebles…
Don Peebles Over at WCP’s Housing Complex this morning, Lydia DePillis correctly notes that despite accepting a speaking engagement at an upcoming D.C. Chamber of Commerce luncheon, erstwhile maybe-mayoral candidate Don Peebles hasn’t been heard from in a month, leading most local politics watchers to … pretty much forget about him. This guy can’t still be thinking about running for mayor this late in the game, can he? Apparently, he can. A Peebles spokesperson…
Don Peebles As promised, real estate mogul Don Peebles appeared on The Politics Hour with Kojo Nnamdi this afternoon, but he declined to make an announcement on whether or not he will enter the 2010 mayoral race. “I’m weighing the decision very carefully,” Peebles said, a refrain we’ve heard from him so many times before. “I have to make a decision very shortly.” DCist can’t figure out why Peebles agreed to appear on the…
Don Peebles, courtesy WUSA9 Between the DCPS contract and ensuing is there or isn’t there a surplus drama, the long-awaited testimony of Sinclair Skinner, the resurrection of the D.C. voting rights bill, and the mayoral campaign shifting into high gear, it’s been a busy week for local politics. So busy, in fact, that one man who may yet still be about to step into the 2010 election fray has been almost forgotten: R. Donahue…
This weekend may be decisive in the District’s thus far muted 2010 mayoral race, as D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7) and multimillionaire developer Don Peebles reportedly plan to meet one more time to hammer out which of the two of them will challenge Mayor Adrian Fenty in the September primary. While they’ve met before and we’ve surely heard our fair share of hints and rumors as to which one of them would…
Photo by yonas1 It was just last week that we highlighted the somewhat pathetic state of the District’s mayoral contest — after all, it’s not really much of a competition when the incumbent has a war chest valued at $3.3 million and his two challengers can’t even scrape together $3,000. But suddenly this week we’ve seen a flurry of, well, rumors. On Monday, word on the street was that D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray…
Don Peebles For a guy not running for mayor, Don Peebles still seems to be testing out his stump speech. Both D.C. Wire and City Desk are reporting on Peebles’ appearance at a meeting last night of the D.C. Federation of Civic Associations, where the developer and erstwhile mayoral challenger ripped Mayor Adrian Fenty a new one, going as far as to claim that Fenty does not respect his wife. In his speech to…