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 | May 13, 2015
On Morning Joe, Obama spox Josh Earnest says he expects Sen. Sherrod Brown to apologize for saying the president was "disrespectful" of Elizabeth Warren in criticizing her opposition to the TPP trade bill.
MarkF | May 12, 2015
On Morning Joe, Andrea Mitchell says the announcement that the King of Saudi Arabia   won't be coming to the White House summit after previously accepting the invitation is such an "in your face" snub that it can't be spun by the Obama White House.
MarkF | May 11, 2015
What a shame: if only the economy in inner-city Baltimore had been better, the rioters would have had more name-brand stores to burn down. On the Ed Show, Baltimore Pastor Jamal Bryant complained that because of economic "disenfranchisement," the rioters "could only find one anchor store in that neighborhood" to destroy.      
MarkF | May 8, 2015
It's enough to make a blogger in mom's basement spit out his Cheetos in surprise.  On Morning Joe income redistributionist and global climate kvetcher Prof. Jeffrey Sachs praises the UK Conservatives for creating jobs via an austerity budget. In a second surprise, Sachs criticizes fellow lefty traveler Paul Krugman.
MarkF | May 6, 2015
On Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle makes the absurd claim that the shady dealings described in Clinton Cash,won't hurt Hillary much because they're too hard for Americans to understand: "I challenge you to explain in one or two minutes to, you know, anyone, what is going on here with the Clintons and all this foundation money."
MarkF | May 5, 2015
On With All Due Respect John Heilemann has the chutzpah to suggest that Mike Huckabee doesn't meet the Commander-in-Chief bar because he lacks a degree from the Kennedy School at Harvard or the Woodrow School at Princeton.  Huck has merely picked up some foreign policy talking points from Fox News, huffs Heilemann.
MarkF | May 5, 2015
Asked by Andrea Mitchell today to comment on footage of poor ol' Bill saying he would continue to give paid speeches because he's "gotta pay our bills," senior Hillary campaign official Amanda Renteria said "that's President Clinton. We are focused on her." Whatever happened to "two for the price of one?"
MarkF | May 4, 2015
On Morning Joe, after viewing comments by Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, Mika Brzezinski says: I think what the state's attorney has done was brave and world and I watched her speaking and I was thinking, gosh, it seems political. Not sure I care. I'm really glad her voice is at the table. I'm really glad that she's there. "
MarkF | April 30, 2015
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough calls Hillary defender Howard Dean "a New England version of James Carville."
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…