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Political Scene: Gorbea's career path rooted in her native Puerto Rico
It doesn't feature in her campaign for Rhode Island governor — at least not yet — but Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea has worked in a governor's office before.
Twenty-four years ago, Gorbea left a job at the Rhode Island Foundation to return to her native Puerto Rico and work for governor Pedro Rosselló, a telegenic surgeon-turned politician leading the territory's pro-statehood New Progressive Party.
The experience lasted about two and a half years and Gorbea describes it as a "second master's degree" in government administration that helped convince her to run for office in Rhode Island.
But details of her work in Puerto Rico, which isn't mentioned in her official bio, are fairly sparse.
Her career before leading HousingWorks RI came up only fleetingly in her campaign for secretary of state.
The years since Gorbea left Puerto Rico, politics there have been turbulent: corruption scandals, a debt c