Nathan Sanderson, executive director of the South Dakota Retailers Association, participates in an election forum on Sept. 19, 2024, at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell. (Photo by Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)

Searchlight Report is a podcast from South Dakota Searchlight. Reporter and host Meghan O’Brien works with other Searchlight journalists to take listeners inside politics and policy in The Mount Rushmore State.

Nathan Sanderson, executive director of the 4,000-member South Dakota Retailers Association, wants to “make state government boring again.” He joins Searchlight Report host Meghan O’Brien to explain why, and to talk about how another major turnover in South Dakota’s Legislature — including the recent ousting of 16 incumbents — could help make it happen.

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