A Conservative Party state Assembly candidate who hopes to represent eastern St. Lawrence County has filed an ethics complaint against the Republican Party incumbent, Janet Duprey.

Karen Bisso, a teacher from Morrisonville, said Thursday she had filed complaints with the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics and with the state Board of Elections alleging that Duprey used her official office to convey campaign materials to voters.

The 115th District stretches from the St. Lawrence County towns of Brasher, Hopkinton, Lawrence, and Piercefield east through Franklin and Clinton counties.

“I was made aware less than 2 weeks ago that the Assemblywoman was tracking my friends and neighbors on social media, and then using her office to send campaign related communications to these people attached to official Assembly documents,” Bisso wrote in a statement announcing filing of the complaints.

“A constituent asked the Assemblywoman’s office for a document. She received it. Attached to the document was a handwritten letter by the Assemblywoman which informed the woman that the Assemblywoman knew that she was friends with me on Facebook, but would still honor her request. An official request, completed in an official document, sent in an official envelope with a note revealing that she was being watched on Facebook is at the least intimidating and an attempt to influence her future behavior, and at most a violation of the law and unethical. This woman was my neighbor of 26 years,” Bisso wrote.

“After consultation with other Assembly members about this matter, I was informed that this was not only a breach of ethics, which is a committee Assemblywoman Duprey sits on, but worse, it is against campaign finance law to use one’s office to send campaign related communications, much less threats. This cannot be tolerated from our elected officials, let alone our local elected officials,” she said.

“There is no better term to describe this than bullying, and it cannot be tolerated on any level,” she said.

Bisso had challenged Duprey for the Republican Party nomination in a primary, but lost in a close contest.