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…

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…

Even though the talk of someone taking on Mayor Adrian Fenty in the 2010 mayoral contest has been mostly idle chatter to date, a familiar face might be ready to take him on. Via reader IMGoph, The Brookland Heartbeat is reporting that Council member and perpetual candidate Michael Brown (I-At Large) gave about as close to a stump speech as possible without being a declared candidate during an appearance at a Ward 5 ANC…

If District pols know two things, it’s that Mayor Adrian Fenty is an accomplished cyclist and an accomplished fundraiser. It’s really not a good idea to challenge him at either. The City Paper’s Mike DeBonis reported yesterday that Mayor Fenty has already raised over $2 million for his coming re-election campaign, already roughly half of what he spent during his entire 2006 campaign. Considering that the District’s next mayoral election isn’t until late 2010,…

We’re not even done with this election cycle, and already we have to look forward to the next one. Over the weekend D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty filed the necessary paperwork to run for re-election in 2010. Here’s Fenty’s statement, via D.C. Wire:”The time has come to engage the residents of the District of Columbia about the future of the city and the leadership that will represent them moving forward,” Fenty began. “We are proud of…