Via WinneganFake
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=325508
Imma copy/paste from him:
"From the Daily Herald:
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."
Yeah, some rich, yuppie douchebag doesn't think little kids should be able to go to the library and hates poor people. What a fucking asshat.
Oak Brook homepage: http://www.oak-brook.org/
Library donation page: http://www.oak-brook.lib.il.us/aboutlibrary/givingopp.shtml
I wonder if there's someplace we can donate to get that shitbag fisted with a sandpaper glove.
ETA: Contact info for the Illinois State Bar Association http://www.isba.org/contact/index.html I do not see an email addy for easy comment, and I don't know if this falls under ethical complaints. We may need to snail mail their offices, which honestly might have more affect, you know, a shitload of hard copy. It does make a statement.
Imma copy/paste from him:
"From the Daily Herald:
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."
Yeah, some rich, yuppie douchebag doesn't think little kids should be able to go to the library and hates poor people. What a fucking asshat.
Oak Brook homepage: http://www.oak-brook.org/
Library donation page: http://www.oak-brook.lib.il.us/aboutlibrary/givingopp.shtml
I wonder if there's someplace we can donate to get that shitbag fisted with a sandpaper glove.
ETA: Contact info for the Illinois State Bar Association http://www.isba.org/contact/index.html I do not see an email addy for easy comment, and I don't know if this falls under ethical complaints. We may need to snail mail their offices, which honestly might have more affect, you know, a shitload of hard copy. It does make a statement.