c lee finley and salahi voting in favor and um commissioner flores fang absent. the commission voted to appoint um mr. pat ford as the next executive director of the ethics commission. congratulations as i think. would you like to say a few words? thank you, chair lee. thank you. commissioners. um incredibly grateful for the trust and confidence that you've placed in me. um, so excited to get to do the critical work that we do as an agency. and work just as hard as our great staff. um, setting a high bar for, um, for our office for the rest of the city, for ethics and transparency. um, i look forward to your leadership, your guidance, uh, your patience. as i learned the ins and outs of this new role. um, and. yeah, can't wait to get to know you all better work with you very closely. um, and. yeah, thank you so much to all the staff in our office and everybody shows up every day. um it's a hard job. it's kind of a thankless job in a lot of ways, but so important for the city. and i know that although folks don't come to our meetings as much as we wish they would,

allysia finley wrote that. the piece, and she joins me now here in new york city. okay, i'd like some examples of shrinkflation. what have you got? >> well, shrinkflation has been around for a while in products. i'll give one example, oreos. during the pandemic they went from about 16 ounces down to 10-ounce packages. my owe yogurt has gone from 7 ounces down to 5 ounces -- >> stuart: but the price in. >> they've been about the same or increased a little bit. stuart: you might if pay more but you're getting less. >> which is an effective price hike, right? when you consider the marginal impact. now, we're actually starting to see more now is shrinkflation in services, and one example is airlines. so nowadays they have basically unbundled their prices, so now you have to pay just to select a seat not even a special seat. any old seat in coach. you have to select a seat is, pay extra for a car ally-on -- carry-on, so that'll increase my flight back to california during the holidays, that increased my charge by ab

vice chair finley for chair. um, commissioner flores fang, i support, um, vice chair finley for chair. commissioner salahi, i support, uh, vice chair finley for chair. commissioner ci. i support, uh, vice chair finley for chair, and commissioner francois, i support the vice chair. i'm sorry. i don't can't pronounce your name first. that's okay. uh, vice chair finley, by a vote of 5 to 0, commission has elected you as the chair for a turn beginning march 1st, 2024. congratulations thank you. and now, uh, i will open up for nominations for vice chair. i would like to nominate commissioner flores fang for vice chair. i second that i accept. would you call roll, please? yes, chair. finley, i support, uh, commissioner flores fang for vice chair. commissioner flores fang, i support myself for vice chair. commissioner salahi, i support commissioner flores fang for vice chair. commissioner ci. i support commissioner flores fang for vice chair and commissioner francois, i support commissioner flores fang for vice chair by

can cite finley and cornelius, denrt, reagan, the christian legal society. all of those cases e benefits cases where we have said, as long it is not viewpoinbad, governntan give the benefit to some and not to otrs you have no cases that go the other way. >> those caseall involve the monetary exceptions. as you pointed out, justice alito, they are really just categorically different for a nuer of reasons. >> take let's say, finle thqution was monetary grants artists. would we have come out an differently if the program was giving paintbrushes to artists? or the program was giving marketing advice to artists? >> i do not ink so. but what distinguishes finley, there was moy, government funds, it is a scarcresource. it is fungible. justice scalia made that same point. >> i do not want to badger you or anything, but you can nd things about each of these cases that might be slightly different from your case. t at you cannot find is y case that supports your prosition, when is not viewpoint based,that government cannot make distinctions, when government is only giv

if it was the same time the west co finley instilled in act dimansky who was no rocket scientist when it comes to strategic strategic thinking, the absurd illusion that with western support, he could defeat russia on the field of battle. particularly certain gentleman from the wonderful garden i tried very hard for home, anyone who was not part of the, the golden 1000000000 or a trash. yes, the european union also following orwell continued to some supply weapons to the care of regime using the money from the peace fund. another year has passed since then to create a new crane has completely failed and it's loudly broadcast, counter counter offensive. and yet the west continues to.

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