No surprises here: Councilmember Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) is running for mayor.

Photo by yonas1 Got nothin’ to do tomorrow afternoon? Stop by Mayor Adrian Fenty’s birthday bash/campaign fundraiser for what’s sure to be — if recent polls are any indication — a somewhat more sober affair than originally planned. Fenty, who’s turning 39, will continue his annual tradition of throwing a big bash for himself this year by taking over a spacious Ward 3 mansion located on a plot of land that was once supposed…

Don Peebles 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…

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. So what does Spidey say he can do for us that Fenty can’t? He offers a four-pronged platform naturally focusing first and foremost on crime (“Spider-Man has…

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…