Erik Arneson

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Erik Arneson
EducationTemple University

Erik Arneson is a 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 newsletter 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, Arneson 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.[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f La Torre, David. "Interview with Erik Arneson". PoliticsPA. Archived from the original on 2004-04-05.
  2. ^ Al, Neri (April 2004). "Some Key Staffers to Watch". The Insider. Archived from the original on 2009-10-21.
  3. ^ Adams, Helen Colwell (July 20, 2008). "Beiler, Bonusgate And A Bid For Auditor General". Sunday News. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. Archived from the original on July 11, 2012. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
  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 2009-11-11.
  8. ^ "Shotgun Honey". February 27, 2014.
  9. ^ "SMFS Derringer Awards Winners and Finalists". February 22, 2012.
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