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 | November 6, 2014
On Morning Joe, after Thomas Roberts questions Sen. Tim Scott's concern for kids given his opposition to various liberal agenda items, Scott explains that Dem congressional control of Congress and the expansion of government programs that went with it, led to significantly increased black poverty.   Individual freedom, economic opportunity and education are the true keys to progress, not more…
MarkF | November 5, 2014
On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle says the pasing of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino "disrupted"  Dem Matha Coakley's campaign for Governor of Massachusetts, which she otherwise "may have pulled out."
MarkF | November 3, 2014
On Morning Joe, Chuck Todd apologizes for having said during his appearance on the show last month that the congresional race in Staten Island was a "fight between mob families."
MarkF | October 31, 2014
On Joy Reid's MSNBC show, Daily Show co-founder Lizz Winstead blames Dem Wendy Davis' impending defeat in her race for Governor of Texas on "redistricting."  Of course districting is entirely irrelevant in statewide races, such as those for governor.
MarkF | October 30, 2014
On her MSNBC show, in a segment focusing on ads Democrats are running stoking racial fears among black voters on issues like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, Alex Wagner says it shouldn't be necessary to do this to get people to vote, "but if it does, so much stronger the party is for it."
MarkF | October 30, 2014
On Morning Joe, after airing a clip of an angry President Obama criticizing states that are imposing quarantines on people from Ebola-affected countries, Joe Scarborough criticizes Obama's hypocrisy.  He points out that the military, of which Obama is the Commander-in-Chief, imposes a quarantine on soldiers returning from Ebola hot zones.  Scarborough calls Obama's hypocrisy "a Jim and Tammy Fae…
MarkF | October 28, 2014
On Morning Joe, former Republican operative Nicolle Wallace passes along the assessment of an unidentified "friend" from Tallahassee that Rick Scott and Charlie Crist "are two guys who are the least tethered to any sort of moral compass that have ever run against each other."  
MarkF | October 27, 2014
The Daily Rundown runs a clip of Hillary on stump in North Carolina for Kay Hagan.  Her grating delivery evokes memories of her "sick and tired" speech from 2003.
MarkF | October 25, 2014
On her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow mocks Republican congressman Darrell Issa for saying that the most recent Ebola outbreak started in "Guyanan, which is a country in South America.  In fact the outbreak began in Guinea, a country in West Africa. Last month, Maddow had made a big geography blooper of her own, talking about President Obama's impending visit to the "Balkans."  In fact he was to be…
MarkF | October 24, 2014
Satiricist Josh Zepps, appearing on Al Sharpton's MSNBC show, blasts the company that produced the ad with young girls dropping f-bombs to advocate equal rights for women.  Says Zepp: "There's something about this company that rubs me the wrong way. They sell t-shirts for men that say 'This is What a Feminist Looks Like.' Ladies: if a man is wearing that, he wants to get in your pants. That's…