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[winneganfake]

Sorry for the copypasta, but allandros pretty much hit the fucking nail on the head already, and this needs to spread:

"From the Daily Herald (bolded bits mine):

 

Telling her mother that she wanted to come to the aid of a library under attack, 11-year-old Sydney Sabbagha stood at the podium before the Oak Brook village board. "I used to go to the library knowing there were people there to help me find a book. Now there is no one to help me," Sydney said solemnly. "It will never be the same without the people you fired." Sydney nestled back into her seat, but that didn't stop 69-year-old criminal attorney Constantine "Connie" Xinos from boldly putting her in her place.

"Those who come up here with tears in their eyes talking about the library, put your money where your mouth is," Xinos shot back. He told Sydney and others who spoke against the layoffs of the three full-time staffers (including the head librarian and children's librarian) and two part-timers to stop "whining" and raise the money themselves.

"I don't care that you guys miss the librarian, and she was nice, and she helped you find books," Xinos told them.

"Don't cry crocodile tears about people who are making $100,000 a year wiping tables and putting the books back on the shelves," Xinos smirked, apparently referencing the fired head librarian, who has advanced degrees and made $98,676 a year. He said Oak Brook had to "stop indulging people in their hobbies" and "their little, personal, private wants."

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."

I don't give a damn what your politics are. This is obscene, whether you're right or left, red or blue.

This is Oak Brook's town website, and this is their library donation page."

Comments

[melsner.livejournal.com]

Clearly, this is a person who's never read "Christmas Carol..."

[sirriamnis.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure he has.

Just as I'm sure Ayn Rand makes him wet.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Unsurprisingly, this made library_mofo last week.

[harlequin-elf.livejournal.com]

Oh, real smooth, picking a fight with an 11 year old girl. Dip shits like are enough to make me turn homicidal.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

in his Mercedes-Benz in the gated Oak Brook community where he lives
Practice what you preach, asshole. Take that money you wasted on an overpriced car and donate it to a worthy cause that keeps kids reading, for fuck's sake.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Add to this the fact that Xinos was apparently a Marine and I think I'm going to be sick to know this fuckhead was in my Marine Corps.

[sirriamnis.livejournal.com]

Re-posted it myself.

I have no words.

[noxcat.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm going to find a way to contact this asshole and simply say 'shame on you. Why don't you pick on someone your own size??'

[mskoi.livejournal.com]

You probably could just look him up (via his practice) in the Oak Brook yellow pages.