A Lenoir man hopes to run against U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry.

Bryan Greene, 46, needs to gather 17,000 signatures of registered voters by June of 2008 to qualify for the ballot as an independent candidate under state law.

Endorsed by the Christian conservative Constitution Party of North Carolina, he pledges to make abortion illegal, oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants and abolish the income tax.

On foreign policy, he believes that the Iraq war and the war on terror are unconstitutional:

The President of the United States has NO right at all what so ever to declare war, and the US Congress cannot constitutionally, by the founders' philosophy of government, delgate their power to delcare war.

A former Marine, he works in the engineering department at Frye Regional Medical Center.