Rodney Dungan

He's on the ball , said Rodney Dungan of Hot Springs.Now a political consultant , Dungan is a former Arkansas Gazette photographer and another old friend.

Others offer darker descriptions of Dozhier as an unpleasant wheeler-dealer.

He's got a lot of enemies in his background , said one man , who spoke on the condition that he remain anonymous.

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He kind of went back to the land and became a hermit , Dungan said.

In the late 1970s , Dozhier began writing editorials and feature articles for The Trapper magazine , now known as The Trapper and Predator Caller.

In the early 1980s , he began writing the magazine's Market Report column.Around the same time , he also wrote and directed a 30-minute film , Trapping : A Necessary Management Tool , Dozhier told the magazine in a 1996 interview.

He became executive director of the Arkansas Trappers Association , lobbying the legislature and the state Game and Fish Commission on regulations for fox hunting and other trapping issues.

Dozhier's tenure left some trappers bitter for reasons nobody seems willing to discuss on the record.

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None of Dozhier's Little Rock friends remember him as being particularly political , but Dungan said Dozhier was Irish and Indian enough to resent authority when it imposed on him.

Dozhier's former girlfriend said Dozhier told her he once considered himself a liberal.But by 1994 , he was solidly conservative , and became a contributing editor in 1994 for Americans in Action , a right-wing newsletter based in Chama , N.M.

Mann met Dozhier when she handled funeral arrangements for his father , who died in February 1994.As her relationship with Dozhier developed , she and her son moved to Lake Catherine to live with him.

Dozhier was in daily contact with conservative Whitewater activists , Mann said.

He'd fax out everything on Whitewater from the papers in the morning , she said.And they'd fax him stuff from Washington and New York..