It always rankles when someone elected to public office tells the people who put him there that they don't really need to know something about government.
It further rankles when people asking for information are characterized as "nosy."
But that is exactly what state Rep. Brent Yonts, D-Greenville, said last week as he explained to reporter John Cheves his plan for killing a bill that would provide more transparency about our deeply troubled state retirement system.
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