Being an election precinct chair is not glamorous. The neighborhood-level position comes with no salary or official duties. It’s a job typically filled by the most committed political activists, the ones willing to spend hours going door to door to get out the vote before each election. Chosen every two years in the Democratic and Republican primaries, precinct chairs are responsible for microdistricts ranging between 100 and 5,000 registered voters. On Saturday, though, the Democratic precinct chairs of Texas’s Eighteenth Congressional District were given the pro athlete treatment before a packed auditorium at the Young Women’s College Preparatory Academy, in Houston’s Midtown neighborhood. As Beyonce’s “Formation” hyped up the audience, an emcee introduced each precinct chair by name. One by one, the dazed-looking organizers walked down…
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