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."

 

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ahh, Oak Brook.

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

$98 thou sure is an awful lot to pay someone to be a librarian.

$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?

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.

Libraries, one of those incredibly socialist policies championed by socialists like comrade Ben Franklin.