Conservative Leader John Rustad acknowledged Thursday that he had caucus leadership search MLAs’ phones at a Monday night caucus meeting after details of a push for a vote on Rustad’s leadership was leaked to the media.

He told reporters at the legislature that it isn’t something that happens on a regular basis but that it was caucus members who actually called for it.

“The MLAs in caucus expressed willingness and interest and desire to make sure that we try to find out who was responsible for potential leaks,” said Rustad. “And so they expressed interest to say, ‘Yeah, let’s deal with this. Let’s look at this now.’ So that’s what we did. We had MLAs look at the other MLAs’ phones, make sure that there was nothing that had gone out. It was appropriate. They all wanted that to happen.”

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