{"id":1377,"date":"2010-10-17T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T04:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2017-11-17T10:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:39:25","slug":"censured-school-member-to-receive-nackey-loeb-first-amendment-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2010\/10\/17\/censured-school-member-to-receive-nackey-loeb-first-amendment-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Censured School Member to Receive Nackey Loeb First Amendment Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANCHESTER \u2014 A ConVal School Board member who was censured for speaking out against a proposed school bond that the board had endorsed has been chosen as this year\u2019s recipient of the Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment Award.<\/p>\n<p>Gail Pierson Cromwell, Temple\u2019s representative on the regional school board, voted against the $4.9 million proposal and opposed it in letters to newspapers and public meetings in her town. As a result, the board voted last spring to censure her. Voters narrowly defeated the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you join the board, you do not leave your First Amendment rights at the door,\u201d Cromwell said at the time. \u201cYou have a duty to inform the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cromwell will be recognized at the non-profit school\u2019s First Amendment Awards event on Oct. 22 at the Capitol Center for the Arts, featuring Fox News commentator, columnist and author Bill O\u2019Reilly.<\/p>\n<p>Read More&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/FA_Recipient_2010.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nackey Loeb Recipient<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANCHESTER \u2014 A ConVal School Board member who was censured for speaking out against a proposed school bond that the board had endorsed has been chosen as this year\u2019s recipient of the Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment Award. Gail Pierson Cromwell, Temple\u2019s representative on the regional school board, voted against the $4.9 million proposal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-compelled-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4561,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/4561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}