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.
On today's CNN This Morning, after a clip rolled of an ICE agent pepper spraying a protester, Dem strategist Rocha claimed that "People don't like point blank pepper spraying . . . People in America are okay with somebody throwing a rock." Rocha called ICE agents "thugs that are terrorizing neighborhoods."
The hosts of MS NOW's The Weekend don't utter a peep as Squad member Ayanna Pressley three times accuses ICE of "murder" in the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. But the hosts and Pressley harshly criticized Trump administration officials for their characterizations of Good.
The Saturday edition of MS NOW's The Weekend had as a guest Angie Craig, a Minnesota congresswoman entered in the Democrat primary for an open Senate seat. Craig recently pulled a stunt on the House floor, picking an argument with a Republican congressman over the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. She made absurd claims on the show, including that "every Minnesotan and American" is outraged like…
Morning Joe scolds the Trump administration for prejudging and jumping to conclusions regarding the fatal ICE shooting of a woman in Minneapolis, but the panel repeatedly refers to the woman who was shot as "the victim," thereby pointing an accusing finger at ICE.
On CNN This Morning, former Biden comms person Meghan Hays, now a CNN commentator, accuses the ICE agent who fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis of "murder." CNN commentator Garrett Graff says ICE recruitment ads are similar to those used in Nazi Germany.
On CNN This Morning, Democrat strategist Antjuan Seawright says: "I don't think this is the posture of someone who's planning to leave the White House in three years because he's been very aggressive about his foreign policy approach and taking over countries."
On CNN This Morning, CNN contributor Lulu Garcia-Navarro, formerly of NPR, says the US operation in Venezuela has caused "increased repression" in that country.
"Everything before the word 'but' is horse s--." -- Jon Snow, Game of Thrones. Joe Scarborough gave a perfect example of Snow's dictum on today's Morning Joe, saying: "We're certainly not hoping that things [in Venezuela] unravel, BUT that's what recent history has taught us." You just know that Scarborough and the rest of the liberal media are licking their lips, hoping and praying, waiting to…
Among the Republicans that CNN This Morning has permitted into its Group Chat, T.W. Arrighi put in an exceptional performance on today's episode. He authored a definitive takedown on NYC's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and his radical agenda: "You can look around the country and around the world and see examples of all of his policies put in shiny new packaging--many examples of them failing time…
