Mark Finkelstein
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Mark's undergrad degree is from Cornell. He has law degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Harvard. He practiced law in NYC, Mexico City, and Paris, before doing a stint as a pro tennis manager and tournament organizer. He returned to his college town of Ithaca, NY and got involved in real estate development and politics.

In 2011, Mark moved to Pecan Plantation, TX, and in 2018, to Oak Island, NC.

Mark's a dog lover who has used his small plane to do many dog-rescue flights. He speaks Spanish and French.
 

MarkF | April 29, 2015
On the previous day's Morning Joe, just after playing a clip of the pastor who delivered the eulogy at the Freddie Gray funeral leading the congregation in an empassioned chant of "no justice, no peace!", Joe Scarborough claimed that the riots that ensured were "something that no one inside that funeral could have ever have wanted." The chant wasn't the pastor's only incitement.  He also told the…
MarkF | April 28, 2015
Let's begin by answering Andrea Mitchell's question.  "How would it have appeared" if the Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake had called the Maryland governor to request National Guard troops just afer Freddie Gray's funeral?  It would have appeared that she was doing her job, protecting people and property, rather than being overly concerned with photo op politics. On her MSNBC show today…
MarkF | April 28, 2015
At the funeral service for Freddie Gray, Pastor Jamal Bryant ended his sermon by leading the congregation in a highly-charged chant of "no justice, no peace."  Yet immediately after playing the clip of that moment, Joe Scarborough claimsd that the riots that ensued were "something that no one inside that funeral could have ever have wanted."
MarkF | April 27, 2015
On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle claims there was no Clinton quid pro quo because Bill took their money but never made the promised phone calls.  Mika Brzezinski says that Newt Gingrich's charges of illegality "made sense."
MarkF | April 25, 2015
On the Melissa Harris-Perry show, Paul Raushenbush, an ordained American Baptist minister and a Huffington Post religion editor, argues against executing Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev because in 20 years he might become "a spokesperson for reconciling Islam with America."
MarkF | April 24, 2015
  On Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch declares that the string of scandals surrounding Hillary "really, really puts a dent in her candidacy and I really believe people are going to want to turn the page on Hillary Clinton." In contrast, Deutsch depicts Rubio as the candidate that people strongly associate with the future, making his candidacy "easy to manage. All he's got to say is 'future, future,…
MarkF | April 23, 2015
Even by James Carville standards, this was bizarre. Toward the end of his appearance on the Ed Schultz show, the strange Cajun calls Clinton Cash author Paul Schweizer "this anti-Disney, gay bike bar Glenn Beck or whatever this guy is."
MarkF | April 23, 2015
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, Jeremy Peters and Mika Brzezinski criticize Howard Dean for attacking the authors of stories exposing Hillary and Bill Clinton's financial dealings rather than discussing the substance of the allegations. 
MarkF | April 22, 2015
On With All Due Respect, Mark Halperin says that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio "may be playing a more dangerous game than he realizes" by failing so far to endorse Hillary Clinton. 
MarkF | April 21, 2015
On With All Due Respect, Hillary's New Hampshire campaign co-chair William Shaheen boasts that he could say where Hillary stands on 10 different issues.  But when asked where she stands on the Keystone Pipeline and the Trans Pacific trade deal, Shaheen has to sheepishly admit that he doesn't know where Hillary stands on either issue.