juddling Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Rich guy dislikes poor people, wants local kids to "lose sleep" over plan to shut library Constantine "Connie" Xinos is the president of the home-owners' association in a gated community in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook. He dislikes being near poor people (he successfully blocked a permit for a senior's home, stating, "I don't want to live next to poor people. I don't want poor people in my town"). He reportedly worked to elect an Oak Brook village council who would shut down the town library, which he also campaigned against. When local kids showed up at town meetings to ask that their library be left open, he is quoted as saying, "I don't care that you guys miss the librarian, and she was nice, and she helped you find books;" and to the library staff to "stop whining." The librarians are now attempting to unionize under the Teamsters. Sydney was upset and "her little friend was in tears" after Xinos spoke at the meeting last week, says mom Hope Sabbagha. "I wanted that kid to lose sleep that night," a grinning Xinos says Wednesday, as he invites me for a nearly two-hour interview in his Mercedes-Benz in the gated Oak Brook community where he lives. "This is the real world and the lesson, you folks who brought your kids here, is if you want something, pay for it..." A poor kid who grew up in Berwyn and worked in his dad's cafeteria in Chicago, Xinos went to law school and served in the Marines. Xinos says he speaks for Oak Brook's view of the Teamsters when he says, "Nobody here likes those kind of people." Xinos, who says he never had children in part because he wasn't sure he'd be able to support them, sprinkles the F-word throughout his conversations. He dismisses a recent library event involving dogs with a blunt three-word rant in which he bookends swear words around the word "that." Link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 ahh, Oak Brook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Here is the link to the full story in the Daily Herald http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=325508 Xinos seems like quite a rich prick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 $98 thou sure is an awful lot to pay someone to be a librarian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 4, 2009 -> 07:28 PM) $98 thou sure is an awful lot to pay someone to be a librarian. you have to ask how her salary got to be that high, you are right that is quite a hefty paycheck. However, I dont know her duties and responsibilities, and i also dont know the going rate of head librarians with her experience and degrees. But at the same time, 3 people were laid off, not 1, and this Xinos guy was against the library before it was built. And he stopped a Senior Center from being built because he didnt want poor people living near him, he doesnt seem like he has too many money problems so why is he so concerned about what the Librarian is making? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Wow, I think I'll call him up and see if he'll donate to the Boy Scouts . . . I wonder if his lack of reproducing was a lack of a willing partner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Libraries, one of those incredibly socialist policies championed by socialists like comrade Ben Franklin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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