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Gobar divulged those figures at a press conference sponsored by the Building Outreach program, co-sponsored by several building trade groups including the Building Industry Assn. of Orange County.

The BIA has filed a lawsuit aimed at knocking the slow-growth initiative off the June ballot, but Outreach officials said their program has no official position on the measure. Instead, BIA vice president Ron Siani said, the program is an effort to communicate to building industry employees and to the general public the message that builders aren’t evil and are all in favor of finding a solution to the county’s transportation problems.

In response to a question, however, Siani allowed that much of the information being distributed as part of the Outreach program is designed to show that the initiative won’t work. And, he acknowledged, few if any Outreach officials are going to be voting for the measure come June.

So much for neutrality.