Mitt, under oath at a hearing in 2002, said Massachusetts had been his primary residence during
the time he was running the Olympics. This came up when Democrats were saying that his time in Utah meant he wasn't a primary resident of Massachusetts, which would have made him ineligible to run for Governor.
He insisted that his work in Utah didn't change the fact that Massachusetts was his primary residence, and he submitted tax records from 1999 and 2000 in support of that. A bipartisan commission reviewed his records and agreed that he met the eligibility requirement of having been a resident of Massachusetts for at least the previous 7 years.
He was lying then, or he's lying now. Or both.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/tax_questions_tripped_up_romneys_run_for_governor.php
About two weeks after the story broke, Romney was called before the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission to prove his residency.
He answered questions under oath for about four hours, most of it spent squaring off with a lawyer representing the Democrats. Romney said his primary residence was a house in Belmont, Mass., which his family had owned since 1971.
But according to a Globe story from the time, the hearing showed the Belmont house was kept in Romney’s wife’s name, he had obtained a Utah drivers license and even openly considered running for office in Utah.
At the end of the hearing, the commission ordered Romney to turn over pages from his 1999 and 2000 tax returns, reports show.
Days after the hearing, the bipartisan commission determined Romney met the qualifications to run for governor.
