California Senator Kamala Harris had what many consider a boffo kickoff last week for her Democratic presidential campaign—a huge rally in Oakland, the most widely viewed CNN candidate town hall ever, and kudos from pundits. While Harris was everything her handlers could hope for—poised, polished, prepared—there’s always someone behind that kind of success, someone who helped plan and pull together the events, a strategist with a steely vision. In this case, it was a Texan with a political pedigree: Lily Adams, the 31-year-old granddaughter of Texas icon and former Governor Ann Richards, and daughter of former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards.Adams is Harris’s communications director. She demurred from talking about herself to Texas Monthly, saying she wanted the focus to be on the candidate, but,…The post The Woman Behind the Kamala Harris Presidential Campaign Is Ann Richards’s Granddaughter appeared first on Texas Monthly.