Filing for the New Hampshire primary opened at 8 a.m. this morning but the first in line was not named Biden or Warren or Buttigieg.

Perennial political office seeker Mark Stewart Greenstein was first candidate to file.  He ran on the Amigo Constitution Party for election to the Connecticut State Senate earlier this year and lost.

Greenstein is now with a party called Every Politically Independent Citizen, or EPIC.  He says that voters are turned off by the left-leaning policies of the leading Democratic candidates.

“When you’re only presented with a choice of a far-left, high-polling threesome — maybe four, with Mayor Pete — or a Republican that they paint as odious no matter who it is, it’s a tough choice for moderate Democrats, it’s a tough choice for independents,” said Greenstein. “We’d like to have other people running to make the choices easier.”

Greenstein — who is from West Hartford, Connecticut — used a handful of $50 bills to pay the $1,000 filing fee at the Granite State’s Secretary of State’s Office. Candidates have until Nov. 15 to pay the fee and submit the required one-page form.

South Bend, Indiana’s Mayor Pete Buttigieg also filed this morning. The candidate known on the campaign trail as “Mayor Pete” said, “What I’m offering is a way forward that is bold enough to get the job done and can unify Americans, and I think that’s going to continue to build our support here.”

In 2016, there were 58 candidates in New Hampshire’s presidential primary. There’s no date yet, but it’s expected to be on Feb. 11, after the Iowa caucuses.