How Boehner Knows Ryan

Tampa

At a lunch Monday afternoon sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, Speaker of the House John Boehner recalled when he first met Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican and Mitt Romney’s running mate.

“Twenty-three years ago, I was running for Congress for the first time,” Boehner told reporters. “I was in a race that I couldn’t win. You know, my name looks Beener, Bonner, Boner. If they can’t say your name, they’re not going to vote for you. And I was running against Buz Lukens and a former member of Congress named Tom Kindness in a Republican primary. And I had a 20-year-old student from Miami of Ohio named Paul Ryan putting yard signs up for me.”