or nonresident of massachusetts. but all of that, he said, how are you going to explain doing that? he said it was all other people's mistakes. the reporter he talked to in 2000 who noted that mr. romney had declared his utah home his primary residence, well, mr. romney said that must have been a mistake on the reporter's part. he told the massachusetts state ballot commission, quote, i have met with that reporter at least 100 times over the last three years and i don't recall a specific conversation about my residence in utah. that reporter got a subpoena to appear in massachusetts and testify as to whether or not mr. romney told her that, and the paper resisted that subpoena. in terms of the tax break that mr. romney got on his utah house for being a full-time resident of utah, he blamed a clerk in the tax assessor's office in utah saying he had never asked for that tax break. somebody accidentally gask gave it to him and accidentally saved him $54,000. the county assessor took the heat for it, although she said at the time such an error had never before occurred in her 12