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 | September 30, 2013
On Morning Joe,  Mark Halperin says that the Obama admin has little incentive to negotiate because it believes a "sympathetic" press will blame Republicans, accusing them of being "obstructionist."
MarkF | September 29, 2013
ABC's Good Morning America's features anecdotes of two African-Americans who could be harmed segment by a government shutdow, with no reference to people who would be harmed by higher healthcare insurance premiums under ObamaCare.
MarkF | September 27, 2013
In an MSNBC "Lean Forward" promo, Chris Hayes extols those "with the courage to look power in the eye and say 'no'."
MarkF | September 26, 2013
On Morning Joe, former Obama car czar Steve Rattner repeats the Obama admin line that negotiating with Republicans over raising the debt ceiling is "like negotiating with terrorists."  When Joe Scarborough asked "so you're saying [then Senator] Barack Obama was a terrorist in 2006 when he said he refused to raise the debt ceiling," Rattner has no answer and turns to Mika Brzezinski for help.
MarkF | September 24, 2013
On Morning Joe, James Carville likens Republican primary voters to low-quality prison inmates.
MarkF | September 19, 2013
On Morning Joe, Nicolle Wallace, formerly President George W. Bush's communications director, analogizes Republicans trying to defund ObamaCare to two-year olds on scooters running into traffic against a red light, and suggest the "adults" in the party need to restrain them.
MarkF | September 18, 2013
On Morning Joe, new "Time" editor Nancy Gibbs says the move of her predecessor Rick Stengel from "Time" to a State Department job in the Obama administration was a "natural extension" for him.
MarkF | September 17, 2013
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says MSNBC and the media at large would be "killing" George W. Bush if he had given a harshly partisan speech attacking the other party, as President Obama did yesterday,  on a day when mass murder such as that at the U.S. Navy shipyard was still unfolding.
MarkF | September 16, 2013
On Morning Joe, MSNBC's Richard Wolffe, touting his new book on the 2012 Obama campaign, says senior campaign officials got together and decided to fire deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter but that no one had the "balls" to tell her.
MarkF | September 13, 2013
Ed Schultz says "it amazes me that people don't love Obama."