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 | March 27, 2013
On Morning Joe, "Time" editor Rana Foroohar says she has "a little bias" for the European, socialized-medicine system over that in the United States.
MarkF | March 26, 2013
On Al Sharpton's MSNBC show, Jimmy Williams, an MSNBC contributor who describes himself as a "certified, organic homosexual," taking issue with Justice Antonin Scalia wondering whether if states can't ban gay marriage they can ban bestiality, declares "I have a dog, but I've never had sex with my dog."
MarkF | March 26, 2013
On Morning Joe, after Mark Halperin mentions that he has "great respect" for Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Barnicle asks why he has great respect for him.  After Halperin explains, Barnicle responds with a skeptical "okay."   Republican strategist Nicolle Wallace weighs in ambiguously.
MarkF | March 25, 2013
Al Sharpton opens his MSNBC show by praising President Obama's efforts to enact tougher gun control laws.  But an ad appears during the show for Henry Repeating Rifles, a manufacturer which describes one of the rifles it manufactures as "big, brutal and beautiful." Henry emphasizes that another, the AR-7 which is based on a military rilfe, permits owners to"carry a large quantity of ammunition."
MarkF | March 25, 2013
On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle and Al Sharpton agree that anti-Semitism explains the opposition to Mike Bloomberg in his gun control campaign.
MarkF | March 23, 2013
On her MSNBC show, Melissa Harris-Perry, discussing human life in its early unborn stages, speaks "the cost to have this thing turn into a human."
MarkF | March 22, 2013
On Ed Schultz's soon-to-be-defunct MSNBC show, a histrionic Michael Moore accused gun owners of racism . . .then proceeded to say it was reasonable for them not to be afraid of their white neighbors  . . . and that he felt more comfortable walking down the streets of Toronto than Detroit.
MarkF | March 22, 2013
On Morning Joe, Zbigniew Brzezinski advises President Obama to privately tell Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that America will not go to war against Iran.
MarkF | March 20, 2013
On Morning Joe, after Dan Senor sarcastically describes President Obama's arrival in Tel Aviv as "the Messiah returns to Israel," Mika Brzezinski says "are you kidding me?"  Responds Joe Scarborough: "no, he's channeling you."
MarkF | March 19, 2013
On MSNBC, temporarily taking Ed Schultz's place, Michael Eric Dyson says "wouldn't that be great" if minimum wage were raised to $22 per hour.