Erik Arneson

Erik Arneson
Residence Cornwall, Pennsylvania[1]
Education Temple University
Religion Christian[1]

Erik Arneson is a prominent political staffer in Pennsylvania, serving as Chief of Staff for former Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Chip Brightbill and as Communications and Policy Director for current Majority Leader Dominic F. Pileggi.

A graduate of Temple University, he studied radio, television, and film and worked at WRTI,the college's radio station.[1] While in college, he developed a subscription-based play-by-mail fantasy professional wrestling league called the "Global Wrestling Federation."[1] He then became a disc jockey at WJTL, a Lancaster-based Contemporary Christian radio station.[1] In 1993, he became a reporter with the Lebanon Daily News.[1] In 1996, he was hired by State Senator Chip Brightbill.[1] The political newspaper The Insider said that he has "hitched his wagon to a rising star when Brightbill was a rank-and-file senator" as Brightbill rose to a leadership position within the Pennsylvania Senate.[2] After Brightbill's defeat following the 2005 Pennsylvania General Assembly pay raise controversy, he began working for the new Majority Leader, Dominic F. Pileggi.[3]

In 2003, he was named to the PoliticsPA "Sy Snyder's Power 50" list of politically influential personalities.[4] In 2003, he was named to the PoliticsPA "Power 50" list.[5] He was named to the PoliticsPA list of "PoliticsPA Rising Stars."[6]

In his spare time, Arneson edits the board/card games section on About.com[1][7] and is an editor for the flash fiction webzine Shotgun Honey.[8] His short story "The Murder of Ernest Trapnell" was published in the Fall 1998 issue of Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine and was nominated for a 1999 Derringer Award by the Short Mystery Fiction Society.[9] His crime fiction short stories have also been published in the anthologies Otto Penzler's Kwik Krimes, Shotgun Honey Reloaded: Both Barrels Vol. 2 and Off the Record 2: At the Movies, the magazines NEEDLE: A Magazine of Noir and GRIFT, and the websites Shotgun Honey, Out of the Gutter Online, BEAT to a PULP and Near to the Knuckle.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 La Torre, David. "Interview with Erik Arneson". PoliticsPA. Archived from the original on 2009-10-20.
  2. ↑ Al, Neri (April 2004). "Some Key Staffers to Watch". The Insider. Archived from the original on 2009-10-20.
  3. ↑ Adams, Helen Colwell (July 20, 2008). "Beiler, Bonusgate And A Bid For Auditor General". Sunday News (Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.).
  4. ↑ "Sy Snyder's Power 50". PoliticsPA. The Publius Group. 2002. Archived from the original on 2002-04-21.
  5. ↑ "Power 50". PoliticsPA. The Publius Group. 2003. Archived from the original on 2004-04-17.
  6. ↑ "PoliticsPA Rising Stars". PoliticsPA. The Publius Group. Archived from the original on 2002-12-05.
  7. ↑ "Erik-Arneson - About.com Board/Card Games Writer - Biography". About.com. The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on 2009-11-10.
  8. ↑ "Shotgun Honey". February 27, 2014.
  9. ↑ "SMFS Derringer Awards Winners and Finalists". February 22, 2012.
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