Unity Party candidate Bill Hammons has entered the 2018 gubernatorial race with a whopping $3.33 expenditure on a website that appears to have been designed using a template from the 1990s.

Hey, observers laughed when Donald Trump said he was running for president, and look what happened there.

Hammons, of Boulder, announced his candidacy in a news release Wednesday afternoon.

“Now that I’ve spent all of $3.33 on the campaign website… today I’ll be filing the required candidate affidavit,” Hammons said.

The Unity Party is hoping to take on a new status as a fully-recognized minor party in Colorado. Such status would grant it the ability to hold primaries and place candidates directly on the November 2018 ballot without needing voter signatures to do so.

The party was looking for another 24 members to cross the 1,000-member threshold in order to qualify as a minor party.

Hammons, chairman and founder of the Unity Party of Colorado, toyed with the idea of compensating voters for affiliation in a “tongue-in-cheek” way, according to an email between Hammons and the secretary of state’s office. Needless to say, the state advised against paying people to affiliate.

Official registration numbers will be released on Jan. 1, so Hammons is eagerly awaiting news as to whether the party will qualify. It increased its affiliation by more than 50 percent in the last month of the election, according to Hammons.

“I’ve consistently accrued thousands more votes with each new electoral contest while spending only pennies per vote in outreach,” Hammons said, noting that he has taken a new “lucrative” career in the insurance industry that he hopes will allow him to fund future candidacies.

Hammons previously ran unsuccessful campaigns for U.S. Senate this year and in 2014. He also ran for Congress in the 2nd Congressional District in 2008.

“The establishment parties just might have a surprise of Pearl Harbor proportions in store in 2018,” Hammons said, issuing the statement on the anniversary of the 1941 attack.

Founded in 2004, the centrist Unity Party has membership in 37 states. The party’s platform includes pushing for a balanced budget, term limits for elected officials and putting a stop to gerrymandering, to name a few of its 18 planks.