Where did Mitt live from 1999 to 2002?

[ProSense]

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As the AP reported in June 2002:

Mitt Romney the former Salt Lake City Olympics chief now running for Massachusetts governor paid property taxes on a Utah home as his "primary residence" between 1999 and 2001 and received a $54,600 tax discount as a result.

The distinction which Utah officials said was made in error fueled the debate about whether Romney meets Massachusetts' residential requirements to be governor. The state Constitution requires a candidate to live in Massachusetts for seven years prior to election.

And as the Boston Globe explained that same month:

At the center of the case were Massachusetts tax returns Romney filed while in Utah. Romney filed in 1999 as a part-year Massachusetts resident and in 2000 as a nonresident.

Romney changed those returns to Massachusetts resident in April, after deciding to run for governor, saying his longtime tax advisers at Pricewaterhouse Coopers had made a mistake.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/12/1109157/-Why-Romney-flip-flopped-on-Bain-departure-date

Mitt Romney said that he had no recollection of returning to Massachusetts for business meetings in 2002 following his departure from Bain Capital to head the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002945250

Mitt Romney told CBS News‘s Jan Crawford Friday evening that he did not attend Bain Capital meetings after he left the company in February of 1999 to run the Winter Olympics. But this answer appears to contradict sworn testimony he delivered in 2002 “as part of a hearing to determine whether he had sufficient residency status in Massachusetts to run for governor”:

– 2002: “(T)here were a number of social trips and business trips that brought me back to Massachusetts, board meetings, Thanksgiving and so forth.”

– 2012: “I was in Salt Lake City for three straight years. I don’t recall even coming back once to go to a Bain or management meeting. We were, I was out there running the Olympics and it was a full time job, I can tell you that.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/13/516951/romney-interview-directly-contradicts-his-previous-statements-about-bain-tenure

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[limpyhobbler]

1. 9 - 9 - 9

[Angry Dragon]

2. Willard -- the great American liar and fraud

[Avalux]

3. So many lies....and liars always tell one too many and screw themselves. n/t

[dimbear]

4. After due consideration, I choose East of Eden. n/t

[jorno67]

5. Willard "Rules Don't Apply To Me" Mittens Romney

He was bad for Massachusetts and he'll bad for the rest of us as well!

[Historic NY]

6. Okay where did you sleep and when....

was there a toothbrush handy.

[ohheckyeah]

7. He lived in the state of

Denial where he continues to reside.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Did Mitt live anywhere? Is he a real sentient lifeform?

Has robotics advanced to that point?

[Drunken Irishman]

9. In a maintenance warehouse somewhere overseas...

[Tx4obama]

10. Kick! n/t

[HubertHeaver]

11. He returned to his home planet

[spanone]

12. mitt answers to no one. he's a one percenter....he's immune from questioning.

or so he thinks....

[Ruby the Liberal]

13. Special Election for Teddy's seat.

Lived in NH, voted in MA election for Scott Brown.

It must get so confusing with so many houses and having to change state registrations on the fly so often (noting that for the special election, he claimed to be living in his son's basement in Mass.... )

Get on it, ProSense. We have only scratched the surface of his entitled "rules don't apply to me" actions flying in the face of federal regulations.

[madashelltoo]

14. If you ever need a lie . . . call the Mittster.

He can straight-faced lie about anything. The reason he can't or won't tell us what his plans for governing are is because he has none. Robme intends to set up his rich buddies by privatizing America, selling off precious resources, and draining every dime out of America. They will plop it all into banks in foreign countries, sit back and laugh at how stupid we were to buy their bullshit. Wake up, people!!

[OverseaVisitor]

15. Wherever

There is a Bain in the US

[Duer 157099]

16. Remember when Sookie went to Faerieland?

There.

[Igel]

17. What does "live" mean?

Ask any grad student who's trying to establish residency for state tuition purposes. You can live in a state for a year and still not live in the state.

When I moved to Calif. I had checked the rules. I made sure I cashed out my checking account. I made sure that I changed all my addresses. I got a driver's license the day after I arrived. Register at school? Nope, DL was more important. Registered to vote the next day. It was strange, giving *everybody* my dorm address as my permanent address. Even the school bounced my form the first time around--"are you sure that you want to have your dorm as your permanent address, and your dorm as your current address?"

Any connection with my old state could be seen as not establishing residence in Calif. and as an intent to return after finishing school in Calif. I couldn't afford the $12k/year tuition difference.

A year later I was approved for in-state tuition a couple of days before the term started. Most others had their applications bounced. Even if they had really moved, most still kept a bank account or something in their old state or they failed to have everything reflect their residence in California. In other words, for two years they lived in California but didn't really live in California.

Oddly, some students who *did*, under Calif. rules, establish residence didn't end their residence in their home states according to their home states' rules. In other words, different definitions led to their being able to claim residency for a number of years in two states.

[ohgeewhiz]

18. Romney retroactively lived in Massachusetts!

Just like he retroactively resigned from Bain.

He should never have been allowed to run for Governor, and we would not be having this discussion today, Sarah Palin would be running for President against Obama.

[ProSense]

22. Wonder

"He should never have been allowed to run for Governor, and we would not be having this discussion today, Sarah Palin would be running for President against Obama."

...how he would answer the question today? I mean, there are at least three different answers in the OP.

He's a liar either way.

Welcome to DU.

[treestar]

19. Now sillies

for purposes of running for governor of MASS, he lived in MASS from 97 to 2004

for purposes of running for POTUS, he lived in SLS from 99 to 2002.

You just have to look at it right!

[Spazito]

20. In the land of Retroactive!

[cthulu2016]

21. Narnia

[panader0]

23. His son's basement? On Kolob?

The ass claims that running the Olympics was so hard. BS. How in the world could he do the required multi-tasking involved with being a POTUS? Thank goodness we'll never find out.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. In a secret underground car elevator between his Utah mountaintop lair

and his secure Massachusetts beach-side compound.

Retroactively, that is.