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

Erik Arneson is a prominent political staffer in Pennsylvania, serving as Chief of Staff for the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Chip Brightbill and as Communications and Policy Director for 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] Shortly after graduation, 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 Lancaster 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] Following Brightbill's defeat following the 2005 Pennsylvania General Assembly pay raise controversy, he began working for the new Majority Leader, Dominic F. Pileggi.

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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 games section on About.com.^[1][7]

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