Patrick press aide resigns

By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff

Jose Martinez, 40, a deputy press secretary to Governor Deval Patrick, has called it quits, leaving to "pursue writing projects" and help raise his two children, Sandrine and Vladimiro.

Martinez, who started work the week before Patrick's January inauguration, is the second press person to depart the 6-month-old administration.

Former Communications Director Nancy Mills left in May.

Martinez, a veteran reporter and editor, worked eight years apiece at the Boston Herald and the Associated Press, including stints in the AP's Boston, Detroit and Grand Rapids, Mich. bureaus.

Today is Martinez' last day.