In early 2006, Christopher H. Hansen, the gubernatorial candidate of Independent American Party of Nevada ( the Constitution Party state affiliate in Nevada ), and candidates in Colorado and Idaho, publicly expressed support for accepting abortions in the cases of rape, incest, and for abortions performed to save the life of the mother, which were contrary to the official Nevada platform.

In September 2006, Ventura endorsed and campaigned with independent Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman, and Independence Party of Minnesota's gubernatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson and Team Minnesota.

Walberg defeated incumbent Republican Joe Schwartz, a former State Representative and gubernatorial candidate, during the 2006 primary election.

Most recently, in Michigan's 2006 gubernatorial race, Iacocca appeared in televised political ads endorsing Republican candidate Dick DeVos, who lost.

In November 2006, Napolitano won the gubernatorial election of 2006, defeating the Republican challenger, Len Munsil, by a nearly 2 – 1 ratio and becoming the first woman to be re-elected to that office.

On January 24, 2006, Reilly officially kicked off his first gubernatorial campaign in Springfield at his alma mater American International College ( see Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2006 ).

However, citing previous instances in which parties not meeting the ' ballot qualification ' criteria were still allowed to participate in primary elections and the fact that there had not yet been a regular gubernatorial election since the party regained its ballot status ( and as such, the decision was premature ), the decision to bar the party from the June 2006 Primary was reversed after less than a week.

Dayton voted against a constitutional ban of same-sex marriage in June 2006, and supported civil marriage equality in his gubernatorial platform.

* Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2006

Blackwell ordered an investigation by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections ; Ohio Democrats demanded that Blackwell, who was also the Republican gubernatorial candidate in 2006, recuse himself from the investigation due to conflicts of interest, but Blackwell did not do so.

Born in Austin, Texas, McClellan is the youngest son of Carole Keeton Strayhorn, former Texas State Comptroller and former 2006 independent Texas gubernatorial candidate, and attorney Barr McClellan.

* Alaska gubernatorial election, 2006 ( primary )

The Florida Reform Party granted use of its ballot line for governor to Max Linn of Florida Citizens for Term Limits ( a Republican-leaning organization ) in the 2006 gubernatorial election.

McClintock unsuccessfully ran for Governor of California in the 2003 California recall election and for Lieutenant Governor of California in the 2006 California lieutenant gubernatorial election.

Camejo was a three-time Green Party gubernatorial candidate most recently in 2006, when he received 2. 3 percent of the vote.

To be recognized as a party and have its candidates listed on the ballot under that party's name, a political party must gather signatures equal to or in excess of 2. 5 % of the total number of votes cast in the last gubernatorial election ( about 45, 000 signatures based on the election held in 2006 ).

The party has also run a host of other candidates and attempted to go statewide in 2006, fielding Phoebe Legere as a candidate in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election.

The PMDB also won 7 state gubernatorial elections in October 2006.

Circuit Park Zandvoort played host to the first race in the 2006 / 07 season of A1 Grand Prix from 29 September-1 October 2006.

* " Larklight " ( 2006 ), a story by Phillip Reeve is set in the 18th century, where Mars is inhabited by an elven race, which formerly commanded great space empires.

As of the American Community Survey Three-Year Estimate of 2006 – 2008, the city's population was 67. 0 % White ( 65. 8 % non-Hispanic White alone ), 26. 5 % Black or African American, 1. 0 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 3. 5 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 0. 7 % from some other race and 2. 1 % from two or more races.

* 1939 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver ( d. 2006 )

McLaughlin defeated two Democrats in 2006 to become mayor, and in 2010 again prevailed in a three-way race.

** In Kamen Rider Kabuto ( 2006 – 2007 ), 1999 is the year in which a meteor strikes the city of Shibuya and also spawns the Worm, an alien race that forms the main antagonist in the series.

The Frenchman raced in the Andros ice race series in 2003, finishing second in the championship behind Yvan Muller ; he also became an Ambassador for Uniroyal, a position he would keep until May 2006.

From 2001 to 2006, the race alternated between FOX and NBC under the terms of a six-year, $ 2. 48 billion NASCAR television contract, with FOX broadcasting the Daytona 500 in odd-numbered years ( 2001, 2003, 2005 ) and the Pepsi 400 in even-numbered years ( 2002, 2004, 2006 ), with NBC broadcasting the opposite race in that year.

The 2005 race ended at sunset for the first time in its history, and the 2006 race ended well after sunset.

In the 2006 movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby starring Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen, Cohen's character is reading a copy of L ' Etranger while he is driving his NASCAR race car.

Greg Kolodziejzyk set two world records recognized by both the International Human Powered Vehicle Association and Guinness ( TM ) World Records on July 17, 2006 on a race track in Eureka, California.

It was expected that the PvdA would do well in the upcoming 2006 elections, but the party lost the race for Prime Minister to the Christian Democratic Appeal after suffering a loss of 9 seats.

In 2006, in keeping with his strong interest in car racing, he provided the voice of Doc Hudson, a retired anthropomorphic race car in Disney / Pixar's Cars-this was his final performance for a major feature film.

However, in 2006, the county narrowly chose Eliot Spitzer over John Faso by a margin of about 1 % in the governor's race, and Hillary Clinton surprisingly defeated John Spencer in the county by a 10 percentage point margin.

From rounds 2-7 of 2006, the second race of the sprint round was made a reverse grid race, in an effort to spice up the action.

In 2005 there was also a marquee round in Shanghai, however the promotor discontinued with this race in 2006.

An amendment was added in 2006 to prohibit any type of hate crime based on factors such as race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion or national origin.

" This 1992 re-election victory was the last time a Democrat won a statewide race in Ohio until 2006 ; DeWine later won Metzenbaum's seat upon his retirement.

The 2006 race took place at York because its regular venue was closed for redevelopment.

Demographic data from the 2001 Botswana census are included for comparison with 2006 CIA estimates.

However, the tracks were nonetheless included in the compilation box set Rock ' n ' Roll Arrives released by Bear Family Records in 2006.

In February 2006, a University of California Blue Ribbon Commission that included Lawrence Korb, a former assistant defense secretary during the Reagan administration, William Perry, Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, and professors from the United States Military Academy released their assessment of the GAO's analysis of the cost of DADT released a year earlier.

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which was an amendment to the larger and unrelated SAFE Port Act, included " carve out " language that clarified the legality of fantasy sports.

Under President René Préval ( President from 1996 to 2001 and from 2006 until 14 May 2011 ), the country's economic agenda included trade and tariff liberalization, measures to control government expenditure and increase tax revenues, civil-service downsizing, financial-sector reform, and the modernization of state-owned enterprises through their sale to private investors, the provision of private sector management contracts, or joint public-private investment.

His books included Le Dernier Roman du Monde ( 1971 ), Portrait des 9 ( 1975 ), The Cosmographical Lobster ( 1976 ), Poésie Sonore Internationale ( 1979 ), Les Riches Heures de l ' Alphabet ( 1992 ) and Graphpoemesmachine ( 2006 ).

In addition, " Forever Changes " was included in " 100 Albums That Changed Music ," a book edited by Sean Egan that was published in 2006.

As a whole, Moldova is doing well, despite a series of consecutive shocks, which included the doubling of the price of imported natural gas and Russia's ban on imports of Moldovan wine in 2006, and a severe drought in 2007.

Nonetheless, the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Wildwoods Shore motel district in New Jersey in its 2006 list of America's Most Endangered Historic Places and included the Historic Route 66 Motels from Illinois to California on its 2007 list.

As a consequence Paramount fell from No. 1 in the international markets to the lowest ranked major studio in 2006 but recovered in 2007 if the DreamWorks films, acquired by Paramount but still distributed internationally by Universal, are included in Paramount's market share.

In December 2006 and again in January 2007, Taiwan International Health Action ( TaiwanIHA ) began operating missions in Kenya consisting of medical experts assisting in training laboratory and health facility personnel, and included donations of supplies, such as mosquito sprays.

In 2006, Version 1. 2 of the CMMI Product Suite included the release of CMMI for Development.

Bandai also later released the series in several different box sets, including a Limited Edition set released on July 23, 2002, a " Perfect Collection "— which included the Escaflowne feature length movie — released October 26, 2004, and an " Anime Legends " box set on April 11, 2006.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez visited Vietnam in 2006 and since then his government has stepped up bilateral relations with the country, which also included receiving the Communist Party General Secretary, Nong Duc Manh in 2007.

These events and disasters included North Korean missile tests, the 2006 conflict between Israel and Lebanon, worries over Iranian nuclear plants in 2006 and Hurricane Katrina.

Aniston was also included in the annual Star Salary Top 10 of trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter for 2006.

The Sierra Madre Oriental mountains south of the city are included in the " Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey " ( National Park ), which was added to UNESCO ’ s Man and the Biosphere ( MAB ) Program of Biosphere Reserves in 2006.

Other long-term members of the group included Peter Baumann ( 1971 – 1977 ), who later went on to found the New Age label Private Music, to which the band was signed from 1988 to 1991 ; Johannes Schmoelling ( 1979 – 1985 ); Paul Haslinger ( 1986 – 1990 ); and, most recently Froese's son Jerome Froese ( 1990 – 2006 ).

And Ray Stevens's song by the name was included in a box set in 2006.

Non-fossil sources in 2006 included hydroelectric 6. 3 %, nuclear 8. 5 %, and others ( geothermal, solar, tidal, wind, wood, waste ) amounting to 0. 9 %.

Until September 2006 this was available only as an on-line column, but it is now included in the print edition.

Ebert underwent further surgery on June 16, 2006, two days before his 64th birthday, to remove additional cancerous tissue near his right jaw, which included removing a section of jaw bone.

Later television roles have included two appearances in Sky One's two-part adaptations of Terry Pratchett's fantasy novels, as Albert in Hogfather in 2006, and Rincewind in The Colour of Magic in 2008.

In February 2006 the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) ruled that curling was a full part of the Olympic program, and have included the medals awarded in the official count.