“Paul Ryan: The Pride of Janesville"

JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A raucous crowd cheered native son Paul Ryan on Monday as he prepared to accept the Republican Party’s vice presidential nomination. He pledged to take the values of his family’s longtime hometown to the White House.

Ryan, a congressman from Wisconsin whose district includes his Janesville hometown, arrived in the gymnasium of the high school where he cheered classmates more than two decades ago to signs welcoming “Paul Ryan: The Pride of Janesville” and two minutes of solid applause. Several times he recognized faces and waved.

“Everywhere I look, I see friends, I see community leaders, I see family members,” he said in this town of about 63,000.

The send-off was a local-boy-done-good tribute and a preview of what aides said would be his message to the thousands of delegates gathered in Tampa, Fla., for the convention — and the millions of voters who will look at him for the first time when he accepts the nomination and addresses the convention Wednesday night.

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