Asked if she was offended about being labeled a "nutcake," Rowland shrugged it off.

"I'll just have a good laugh about that and enjoy a new nickname," she said.

Former City Council woman Deeda Seed, who now serves as Anderson's spokeswoman, said her son attended the protest.

"Lots of little kids were there. Are they all nutcakes?" she asked.

Media accounts of the protest have varied — with some reports tagging the crowd as mostly young students and hippies to others reporting that the crowd was a good cross-section of people from various socio-economic backgrounds.

The crowd size has also been variously reported, with some putting the crowd at about 1,000 and others noting it was larger than 2,000. Anderson maintains it "was probably the largest demonstration of its kind in Salt Lake City with well over 2,000 people in attendance."

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