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The Draft Bloomberg movement is a political draft movement in the United States that launched in 2007〔Gardiner, Jill (2007-09-25) ("Draft Bloomberg Group Sees Many Signs of Growth" ), ''New York Sun''. Retrieved 2010-10-14.〕 as an effort to convince New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for President of the United States as an independent candidate in the 2008 election.〔Molla, Rani (2008-01-14) ("Draft Bloomberg Movement Launched" ), ''Time''. Retrieved 2010-05-01.〕〔DeSio, John (2008-01-31) ("Let's Run for President! Draft Bloomberg Web Site Draws Little Support" ), ''The Village Voice''. Retrieved 2010-10-14.〕 The movement ended for that election cycle on February 28, 2008, when Bloomberg formally announced that he would not run for president.〔Bloomberg, Michael R. (2008-02-28) ("I’m Not Running for President, but..." ), ''The New York Times'' Retrieved 2010-10-14.〕 The movement relaunched in late 2010 as an effort to persuade Bloomberg to make a presidential bid and/or lead in the formation of a viable third party in 2012.〔Fermino, Jennifer (2010-10-09) ("Dispatches from the campaign trail" ), ''New York Post''. Retrieved 2010-10-12.〕〔Saul, Michael Howard (2010-10-14) ("Bloomberg Supporters Plot Draft" ), ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved 2010-10-14.〕〔(2010-10-13) ("Green Party Candidates Race to Join the Committee to Draft Michael Bloomberg Press Conference This Thursday" ), PR Newswire. Retrieved 2010-10-18.〕 ==Support from Independent Greens of Virginia== In January 2008, the Independent Greens of Virginia launched the first state petition drive in the nation to put Michael Bloomberg on the ballot for president.〔Winger, Richard (2008-01-04) ("Virginia Independent Green Party is Circulating a Bloomberg Petition " ), ''Ballot Access News'', Retrieved 2010-10-19.〕 The party collected and submitted more than the minimum number of required petition signatures with Bloomberg's name to the Virginia State Board of Elections, prior to the Board's deadline, to put the party on the ballot for president in Virginia.〔Benjamin, Elizabeth (2008-08-17) ("Mayor Bloomberg on Virginia ballot as candidate for President" ), ''New York Daily News''. Retrieved 2010-10-19.〕 Despite these efforts, Bloomberg did not appear on the Virginia ballot in the 2008 election as a presidential candidate because, one day prior to the State's deadline for ballot submissions, he requested that the party remove his name.〔Winger, Richard (2008-09-05) ("Baldwin Likely to be on Virginia Ballot as Independent Green Nominee " ), ''Ballot Access News''. Retrieved 2010-10-19.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Draft Bloomberg movement」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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