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 | January 28, 2013
On her MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell claims that during an interview with New Republic editors, President Obama said only that his guests at Camp David shot skeet, not himself.  But New Republic editor Chris Hughes, one of the interviewers, tells Mitchell that in response to the "point-blank" question as to whether he had ever fired a gun, Obama's answer was "yeah, we go skeet shooting all the time…
MarkF | January 26, 2013
On her MNSBC show, Melissa Harris-Perry says the U.S. military is "despised by many progressives"
MarkF | January 25, 2013
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says "I'll be damned. If we find out that the Pentagon is lowering standards for politically-correct reasons, then you know what? Then the blood of dead Americans in future battles will be on their hands."
MarkF | January 24, 2013
On Morning Joe, after panelist Donny Deutsch harshly criticizes Sen. Rand Paul for telling Hillary Clinton that had he been president he would have fired her over her handling of the Benghazi attack, Willie Geist defends Paul, saying he "had a right to challenge" Clinton and that he was "doing his job."
MarkF | January 22, 2013
On his MSNBC show, Ed Schultz calls Republcans "damn good" liars, and says that when in coming political battles with them, President Obama's plan is to "grab the jugular."
MarkF | January 22, 2013
On Morning Joe, Andrea Mitchell, speaking of President Obama's inaugural speech, says that she found it "uplifting" and that "I was very moved, being up there . . . looking out over the masses."
MarkF | January 19, 2013
In a minute-and-a-half long segment, ABC's 'Good Morning America'' fails to mention that indicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is a Democrat.
MarkF | January 18, 2013
On Morning Joe, John Heilemann of New York magazine sneers at conservative pundit S.E. Cupp when she asserts, discussing the NRA ad referring to President Obama's children, that "every president's kids have been misused."
MarkF | January 17, 2013
On Morning Joe, Tom Brokaw says that the refusal of people to speak out against solutions to gun violence "reminds me a lot of what happened in the South in the 1960s during the civil rights movement," in which good people declined to speak out in support of civil rights and against people like Bull Connor.
MarkF | January 16, 2013
On Al Sharpton's MSNBC show, Dem Rep. Jim Moran says that "older white guys are the most insecure component of our society" and "much the problem with these kind of things", in a possible allusion to gun control.  Joan Walsh offers comfort and support.