In a modern day version of David vs Goliath, a rookie candidate uses high tech stones to challenge a powerful incumbent. The ending has yet to be written...
Herb Jones a retired Colonel and disabled veteran spent decades in the Infantry. He's running for office in 3rd Senate District of Virginia against Tommy Norment, a long term incumbent and Republican Senate Majority Leader.
This is the story of a rookie candidate with little money battling stiff odds. Can technology level the playing field?
Background
Tommy Norment has faced criticism for introducing a bill to reduce the current penalties for the production of child porn. "Republican Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment is facing re-election this November, (VA has off-year elections)... Ask anyone in Virginia what priorities the state legislature should focus on, and I challenge you to find one person who would say that the state’s child porn punishment is too harsh. Yet with Senate Bill 1560, that is exactly what Tommy Norment tried to “fix.” The bill would have cut the maximum from 30 years down to 20, and the minimum from five to two years", reports Daily Kos.
Herb believes in stiff penalties against child pornography and this is part of his campaign for Virginia's 3rd Senate District. He used Adobe Spark, a free app and DemLabs training organized by WinVirginia to create his own campaign video on this issue.
Watch the actual video along with sound here.
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- Recording the appeal
Herb records his campaign message on his phone. The script is simple and direct based on free coaching provided by Steve Edelman from Speak Real Communications. Herb transfers his recording to his laptop for editing into his campaign video. - Finding a cover photo
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- Video creation
- Promoting the campaign video
Herb shares his campaign video on Facebook with a Spark-generated link. Supporters can share Herb's video by email, on Facebook and Twitter. Herb plans to embed his video on his web site using a few lines of code that Spark provides.
- Recording the appeal
Herb records his campaign message on his phone. The script is simple and direct based on free coaching provided by Steve Edelman from 
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Herb shares his campaign video on Facebook with a Spark-generated Recap
2. Find free, high quality photos for your video on Pixabay .
3. Create your video with background music using Spark.
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