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.
Updated at 5:36 p.m. Former Nevada attorney general Catherine Cortez Masto announced Wednesday that she will run for the Senate seat being vacated by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid in 2016, a move that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee swiftly embraced.he National Republican Senatorial Committee wasted no time characterizing Cortez Masto as a rank-and-file Reid loyalist, pledging to keep her from winning the seat. âDespite being Harry Reidâs handpicked candidate, Catherine Cortez Masto will quickly learn that running for Senate is no picnic.