Littleton: When I was elected from the city council, African-Americans didn’t put me in office because number one, there’s not enough African-Americans in Odessa to put me in office. Hispanics put me in office because they had the numbers to make it happen. I have more Hispanic friends in Odessa, period. My neighbors are all Hispanics and I don’t see them as Hispanics. I see them as my friends. One of the things they told me when I was running for office. You’re black, but we know you’re not going to forget us and I never have. I never have. I’m for people. Especially underdog people. There’s no second-class citizens and unfortunately in the society that we live in today, there are people that feel like they’re our superiors and they’re not. I have a problem with that. You treat everybody the same. I walk and talk that. In my heart, I have two soft spots. Number one for kids. Number two for senior citizens. When you mess with kids and you mess with senior citizens, you’ve just started a war with me. I don’t have any kids. I don’t have any biological kids, but I volunteered a lot at Boys and Girls Club. So, I’ve touched the lives of many, many kids. They’ll tell you we going to tell Mrs. Joann. We going to tell Mrs. Joann. That trust didn’t come over night. They know if something happens, I’m going to go find Mrs. Joann. A lot of their parents are like Joann is not your mama, Mrs. Joann is not your daddy. They don’t care. I’m going to tell Mrs. Joann because if Mrs. Joann sees me walking, she’s going to give me a ride. If I’m hungry, Mrs. Joann is going to feed me. If I get in trouble, Mrs. Joann is going to be there. That means a lot to me that the kids—they believe in me. They know that Mrs. Joann is going to be there for me. There was a time that I was volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club and you probably got a hundred thirty kids in the Boys and Girls Club and the water fountain by the door doesn’t even work. The air conditioner’s going out. I’m like this—unreal! Naturally, I get on the phone and I call the news media. I said, “Come here. Come here. Would you like for your child to go to a Boys and Girls Club where the air conditioner’s going out and where the water fountain doesn’t work?” Well, naturally, when the director found out about it he came to the Boys club and you know, “Let me tell you something, you’re not going to have a press conference and you get off this property.” I had some choice words for him. “And if you don’t.” I said, “If I don’t, what you going to do? We don’t have to have a press conference in the Boys club.” So, I told the media, I said let’s go across the street to the park and we had a press—I said, “This is what our kids have to go through. This is how the Boys and Girls Club cares about our kids. The Boys and Girls Club on the north side of town, I bet they have water fountains. I bet they have air conditioning.” It was like, oh, I had an X on my back. Like people said all Joann does is raise hell. Well, the squeaky wheel gets attention. Got the air conditioner fixed. Got a water fountain, but I shouldn’t have had to go through what I did. Just do the right thing. Do the right thing. So, the media were like wow Mrs. Davenport, you made—oh, wow, Mrs. Davenport. I said I don’t like people—I’ll never forget, during my time to the council, the industrial complex back there was Dynagen and it was contaminating our air. Dynagen was contaminating our air and everything and what happened was there was a lot of big meetings with the Attorney General and everything and they were wanting to close down Dynagen because people were getting sick. My constituents had multiple lawsuits against the city of Odessa, and against Dynagen. It was a real big deal and I was really put in an awkward position because I represent the people, but then I represent the city of Odessa also. All the constituents were like Joann you better tell them they better pay us. They better pay us because that plant is killing us. I’m listening to everything they’re saying. Well, being on the city council, if we close down Dynagen, Odessa is going to be a ghost town. So, I’m constantly meeting with the attorneys and I’m meeting with the attorneys. What are we doing? That plant has to clean up because it’s killing people in my district and I’m fighting. I’m meeting all day. I’m fighting. They’re going to be fined every day if they don’t clean it up.