alan hevesi from queens was the city comptroller.eter vallone had been speaker of the city council. there was also michael bloomberg. a democrat turned republican and a billionaire and a political novice. and then there was mark green. brian lamb: who is mark green? mark green: my grandparents came from poland and russia. my father was a lawyer but smalltime landlord owner. my mother was a kindergarten teacher. she had five miscarriages before i was born. i was considered a miracle child. my parents treated me like wow, he's here. i have an older brother stephen l. green who is well-known in new york. he is the funny older brother that i kept teasing. he founded what is now the owner of the largest commercial real estate property in manhattan. it has a market cap of $14 billion. an extremely influential mentor in my life. living on long island. we lived in brooklyn originally and moved to long island. it was a suburban family. my family was rockefeller republicans. a conservative, it hit the earth and killed off these moderate republ