Textile fibres can be created from many natural sources (animal hair or fur, insect cocoons as with silk worm cocoons), as well as semisynthetic methods that use naturally-occurring polymers, and synthetic methods that use polymer-based materials, and even minerals such as metals to make foils and wires.
Walker ran as a Republican candidate for Alaska Governor in the 2010 elections. He faced Sean Parnell and four others in the Republican primary on August 24, 2010, and garnered 33.95 percent of the vote, coming in second to Parnell, who won with 49.49 percent.
Since 1992, the American Independent Party has been the California affiliate of the national Constitution Party, formerly the U.S. Taxpayers Party, whose founders included the late Howard Phillips. The American Independent Party has had ballot status in the state of California since 1968 and is still active there.