Hi folks.

As you may know, I am supporting my friend and mentor Stan Hammer in his race for the Court of Appeals seat vacated by Judge Wynn when he was deservedly elevated to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Stan is eminently qualified by experience, ability, and temperament to be an outstanding Court of Appeals Judge.

Here are two ads his campaign has just released. Let me know what you think, and please remember to flip your ballot and vote for the judges. You get to choose your top three in this race - please don't hesitate to do so. There is no way your second and third choices can hurt your first. They only count if your first choice is not in the runoff.

I hope you will join me in supporting Stan Hammer. Click through to see the vids.

The first one is called "EXPERIENCE."

Congressman Bob Etheridge is the Congressman from the Second District of North Carolina. The Second District stretches from downtown Raleigh, through the suburbs of Southern Wake County, and into the surrounding suburbs and farmland of Johnston and counties south. It's a changing area, formerly rural, now rapidly urbanizing. It is the very definition of a swing district.

Now, thanks to the Tea Party, Congressman Etheridge is in a dogfight. And he's fighting a woman, Renee Ellmers, who has risen to Tea Party prominence on the back of a campaign against the Health Reform Plan, a campaign based on misinformation and gullible people who don't read for themselves.

But she just outed herself as a racist Islamophobe in her new campaign ad.

I promise you, you won't believe this one. Join me below the fold.