If you add all the current retirees (including teachers) they comprise about 40% of the vote. Hopes beginning to run out, the pension fund has lost 20% this year. In the beginning of the year the fund covered about 64% of the liability and we are paying healthcare benefits to teachers one a $1 in $1 out basis. I'm just waiting for Gov. Lynch to "fess" up. Anyone who follows the problem knows it's coming. That includes all the union members, their political "pets" and about 10 private citizens.