Buzz: Legendary advanceman Rick Ahearn memorialized, top Hill staff brewers, and new Georgetown political fellows

Legendary Reagan advance man Rick Ahearn, 74, was memorialized at a well-attended funeral on Cape Cod this week.

The popular Ahearn served five presidents, six vice presidents, and worked on 14 presidential campaigns.

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He is probably best known for being at former President Ronald Reagan’s side the day he was shot in Washington, D.C.

“All his old advancement buddies told some great — and hilarious — stories. It was less a funeral and more of an oral history,” said Howard Mortman, a former colleague who is C-SPAN’s communications chief.

• Stouts dominated the Sixth Capitol Hill Staff Homebrew Competition sponsored by the Brewers Association and the American Homebrewers Association. The top winner was “Irish Trip,” an oatmeal stout brewed by Will Lane, a legislative assistant for Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC). Second place was an imperial stout titled “Liquid Legislating,” from Jennifer Burks, a policy adviser for Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI). And third place was an Irish red ale called “Red Sky at Night” from Matthew Knoedler with Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA).

(Photo courtesy the Brewers Association)

• Former Vice President Mike Pence’s longtime chief, Marc Short, is back in Washington as a fellow with the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service. He joins two reporters, Deanne Millison, a former adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, and Machalagh Carr, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s chief of staff, among the institute’s spring fellows.

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