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 7, 2013
Joe Scarborough says, "this is liberal on liberal on liberal violence. I love watching it."   He was referring to the intra-squad liberal dogfight between Richard Wolffe and Sam Stein, spurred by Rand Paul's filibuster, that broke out on Morning Joe today over the use of drones by the U.S. government.
MarkF | March 6, 2013
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski says that that at a place where she used to work, "any woman who did anything or got to the top immediately had something revealed to the press or online or whatever that would bring them down. And I suggest that some might even argue that it's women doing that."
MarkF | March 4, 2013
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski says she's "angry" over George Stephanopoulos having invited Dennis Rodman on "This Week" to discuss his visit to North Korea and meeting with its leader Kim Jong Un.
MarkF | March 2, 2013
On 'Up With Chris Hayes',  Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar defends Hayes's failure to have any criticis of the Voting Rights Act on the show.  Amar says he's unaware of any "leading academics" that are critics of the law.
MarkF | March 1, 2013
On Morning Joe, David Axelrod sarcastically asks "what is Gene Sperling going to do to Bob Woodward?  Bob Woodward, who faced down H.R. Haldeman as a young man, feels intimidated by Gene Sperling?"
MarkF | February 28, 2013
Appearing on Al Sharpton's MSNBC show to discuss the 159th anniversary of the founding of the Republican party, Abby Huntsman, daughter of Jon, says that if Abe Lincoln were around today he would want a "conversation" about immigration and gay marriage, and that today's Republican party is populated by people who "want no government at all."
MarkF | February 28, 2013
Using her best scared-little-child voice, Mika Brzezinski mocks Bob Woodward for saying the White House threatened him over his reporting on the sequester.  Says Mika: "is he really afraid of a little aide?"
MarkF | February 28, 2013
On Morning Joe, commenting on the story of the Obama White House having threatened Bob Woodward over his reporting on the sequester, Joe Scarborough tells a story--without naming names--about having been threatened by the Bush White House. Andrea Mitchell tells a story about how during the Reagan years she was threatened by Chief of Staff Don Regan over her Iran-Contra reporting.
MarkF | February 27, 2013
On her MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell accuses Republicans of "red-baiting" Chuck Hagel.
MarkF | February 26, 2013
On Hardball, newly-elected Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, presented by Chris Matthews as a "rising star," says "I believe and I think a lot of people feel the same way that you don't have a right to go into a classroom and take down a class of children in under a minute."