Several lambasted state officials and encouraged others to turn to city leaders for help, complaining Utah laws provide them no protection against landowners eager to sell the land beneath their mobile homes.
And Rep. Lynn Hemingway, D-Millcreek, made matters worse for the already-under-fire state officials when he used an unflattering pseudonym to refer to mobile homes.
"I've just got one trailer park in my district," Hemingway began before he caught himself and his voice was drowned out by a storm of boos from the audience.
The rest of the lawmakers were careful to use the proper term "mobile-home parks" and avoided fanning the flames.
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