Boehner gives high marks to Romney VP pick Ryan

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FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner hasn’t forgotten the help he got from the Ohio college student who staked up the campaign signs during Boehner’s first congressional run. Twenty years later, that student, Paul Ryan, is the Republican candidate for vice president.

“I couldn’t be more proud of our ticket,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said Monday during a breakfast fundraiser for Jason Plummer, the GOP nominee for an open southern Illinois congressional seat.

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