CLAYTON, Mo. – In a newly filed complaint with the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office, St. Louis County Executive Sam Page is accused of improperly using public funds.

Tom Sullivan submitted the complaint after postcards started arriving in voters’ mail that contained information about Proposition B, the ballot measure that would give the county council the ability to remove department heads.

Sullivan says he sent two separate complaints: one to the Secretary of State claiming Page spent public funding on the postcards, the other to the Missouri Ethics Commission claiming Page violated campaign finance disclosure laws. That complaint has to do with fliers that were distributed that contained similar information and wording to the postcards.

Sullivan showed FOX 2 News an invoice which shows a company billing the county executive’s office about $5,000 for close to 55,000 Prop B postcards.

“Anytime you have tax dollars being spent, I think it’s a concern,” Sullivan said.

When asked for an interview, the county executive’s office sent FOX 2 a statement saying, “We were happy to see Mr. Sullivan publicly come out against Prop B with letters to the editor.

“He understands how flawed the proposal is. He also understands that it is proper, legal, and necessary to educate voters on ballot language that the circuit court called ‘misleading, insufficient, inaccurate, argumentative, prejudicial, and unfair.’ Why Mr. Sullivan would want to keep voters in the dark goes against his long-time declaration as a government watchdog.”

Sullivan says his complaint is about the finances, not Proposition B. He says the postcards went beyond educating voters.

“100% is telling you how terrible things are going to be if Proposition B is passed. There’s no objectivity. They’re not informational. They’re all opposed to Proposition B,” Sullivan said.