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 27, 2024
On CNN's State of the Union, host Dana Bash defends Joe Biden over critical remarks on his record on race that Kamala Harris made against him. Bash brushes off the remarks as having been made by Karris when she and Biden were running against each other for the Democrat presidential nomination. But as her guest Sen. Tim Scott points out, the truth of Harris's accusations can be confirmed. 
MarkF | May 25, 2024
The panel of MSNBC's The Weekend expressed its great frustration over voters not being sufficiently scared by Trump's rhetoric, and thus not stampeded into supporting Biden.
MarkF | May 24, 2024
Nervous about Trump's inroads with black and Latino voters, Morning Joe does its best to dump on Trump's rally in the Bronx, a borough where 85% of residents are black or Latino.
MarkF | May 23, 2024
Morning Joe lashes out at Nikki Haley in reaction to her announcement that, despite having been very critical of Trump during her primary run, she will be voting for him. Joe Scarborough uses a vulgarity in his tirade, and Charlie Sykes slimes Haley as a "very, very, cheap date" for Trump.
MarkF | May 22, 2024
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says, "I wonder who's stupid enough to believe him [Trump], right? I wonder why his voters that keep going back to this guy when he lies."
MarkF | May 22, 2024
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocks Rudy Giuliani for marketing his own eponymously named coffee brand, lamenting, "Unfortunately, this is our world, 2024." Scarborough apparently forgot that for years, he's had his own  "Morning Joe" brand of Starbucks coffee.
MarkF | May 21, 2024
On Morning Joe, Macho Joe Scarborough says that if he were the judge in Trump's hush money case, he would jail Trump for contempt and bring him in and out if court in shackles.
MarkF | May 18, 2024
On MSNBC's The Weekend, none of the trio of co-hosts challenge Dem Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, who expresses support for Biden's plan to cut off certain military supplies to Israel if it goes into  Rafah. That represents a 180-degree flip-flop from Nadler's position in 2019, when Donald Trump was president, when Nadler said : "Democrats who have expressed support for leveraging aid to Israel…
MarkF | May 17, 2024
On Morning Joe, in the course of a segment devoted to criticizing Justice Samuel Alito for permitting an upside-down American flag to be flown at his house, Joe Scarborough accuses Alito of having leaked the draft Dobbs opinion, which overturned Roe v. Wade.
MarkF | May 16, 2024
Morning Joe opens with a clip of Jimmy Fallon imagining Trump having to get his parole officer's permission attend a debate with Biden.