Pat McCrory is not a fan of TV crime procedurals.

At a debate in Atlantic Beach today, the Republican gubernatorial nominee said that his wife is "hooked" on reruns of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "Law & Order."

"I have a very tough time watching those two shows because on 'CSI,' they have a crime lab which within minutes — or at the most even hours — they get the results back of DNA tests," he said. "In North Carolina, they're waiting month after month after month after month while cases are held up and our county prisons continue to be full."

He said that "Law & Order" prosecutors dress "as though they can afford to shop at Neiman Marcus," courts have no backlog and judges have new laptops and , while real-life attorneys have a hard time paying their bills and victims wait in packed hallways.

"In North Carolina, we have judges and DAs who are working out of cardboard boxes, as though it's the 1920s and 1930s," he said. 

He also claimed that plea bargains are becoming "non-existent" in North Carolina because defense attorneys are advising clients to plead not guilty because of a long wait for trials and a lack of jail space.

Trivia Check: Neiman Marcus has one North Carolina store — in Charlotte's pricey SouthPark Mall.

Richard Moore had a hefty cable bill last month.

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate owed Time Warner Cable more than $25,000 for TV ads that aired in mid-January. During the same time period, rival Beverly Perdue, spent only around $4,000 on basic cable advertising, according to public records.

The candidates' advertising buys also included local TV stations, so their overall spending is different. No Republican candidate bought air time with Time Warner during that period.

Moore was unique in his broad use of basic cable. His ads aired on 14 different channels, including CNN, MSNBC, The Food Network, The History Channel, USA and TNT.

Some of the buys — such as BET and Lifetime — could be attempts to reach black voters and women, two groups in which he trails Perdue in the polls. He also aired 14 ads on Fox News, which attracts a more conservative audience.

By contrast, Perdue focused her attention on news channels, airing ads only on CNN and MSNBC. 

There was one exception for Perdue: A single ad, which cost $1,764, on the USA channel which ran once between 6 to 8 p.m. on Jan. 17. According to this schedule, back-to-back reruns of "Law & Order" aired during that time.

Perdue spokesman David Kochman said the campaign focused on news programming for cable ads because the audience was more likely to be politically active. He would not comment on the USA ad.