The Interview – Dana Heath – Councilor Exposes Actions of Kimberly Blake – “It’s insane!”
Gardner Magazine Publisher Werner Poegel had the honor of speaking with Gardner Ward 2 Councilor Dana Heath on Saturday, October 11, 2025. Listen to the entire interview on any device, CLICK PLAY.
Heath spoke very negatively about Kimberly Blake. In the nearly 1 hour interview, we focused on a number of topics: Councilor Heath confirmed that the Social Media posts regarding Waterford were inaccurate. Councilor Heath spoke of details regarding what he says Kimberly Blake attempted to do to him and his family trying to affect his livelihood by false statements made to the employers of both himself and his spouse, and to affect his standing in the Flag Football League with false statements. According to Heath, Kimberly Blake has directly caused conflict between his kids and his ex-wife. According to Heath, Kimberly Blake even contacted his sister in Texas and shared false photoshopped items.
About the specific attacks made by Kimberly Blake and others even revealing that Kimberly Blake falsely claimed to be a parent in Heath’s Flag Football program and detail of what else Heath says she did: “But with those people in particular, you know, they’ve made attacks to me and my family that I haven’t necessarily spoke about out publicly. And what I’ll say is, you know, I run a youth league through the NFL. They contacted the NFL with false information talking about my brother. …Because of their phone calls, you know, I had to be investigated through the NFL to go ahead and go see. Well, based off of one picture from three years ago, they went ahead and, I will say, Kim Blake, went ahead and put an investigation on me saying that she was a concerned parent and acted as if she had a child in my program….. They didn’t only attack my Flag League, and again, it came back false, …I can confidently say she (Kimberly Blake) was the one who led this. They also contacted my wife’s realtor board. They also contacted, we’ve recast, they went ahead and they went to go after the license. They contacted my personal job. They did everything possible to stop any type of income that was within my household. So, and again, I don’t get paid for doing the Flag football. I’m saying that they attacked every source that we had to try to make us look like we’re bad people. They also got in touch with my ex-wife. Now, for those that know, you know, me and my ex-wife, we had a very difficult, you know, relationship. And with that being said, that’s why she’s my ex-wife. I wish her nothing but the best. You know, she’s there for the kids when they need her,.. but they went ahead and they used her rage to their advantage. They used it. They went ahead and made it very, very, very difficult for my kids to even want to have a part of her life. My kids live with me. But my kids literally stopped talking to her. One of them still doesn’t talk to her. The other one talks to her in very small, you know, amounts, which, you know, there’s no secret. I don’t necessarily, you know, care for my ex-wife, but I care for my kids and I care that that’s their mother. …And I feel like, you know, as much as my fiancee Tiffany, is the best stepmother that you can go ahead and ask for. And my kids absolutely love her, but they only have one mother and she (Kimberly Blake) took that away. She took away their bond. She took away a lot of their connections and it hurts them.” According to Dana Heath, Blake even reached out to his sister in Dallas with false, photoshopped information. Health also related story repeated many times by others: when people came to his defense and told Blake things weren’t true, she blocked them from the group. Councilor Heath detailed other actions of DeMeo, Blake and others who have attacked other officials with false allegations which Heath called “bully tactics.”
Success of the City: During our interview, we discussed the many successes of the City of Gardner and went over a number of issues. When asked what he would do with a $5 million blank check that had to be used for something to benefit the City, Heath brought up the idea of an indoor sports facility where people could enjoy various sports every month of the year.
Very involved with his constituents: Dana Heath is proud that he is directly involved with his constituents and gave out his phone number several times, stating that he welcomes phone calls. “I will go ahead and entertain their call and address the situation….If I don’t know something, I’ll tell you I don’t know. But I’m willing to go ahead and go find out.” That phone number is (774) 242-3751
Additional Resources:
In the interview, Councilor Dana Heath spoke about a previous incident which occurred when Kimberly Blake was accused of acting inappropriately at Gardner City Hall. Here’s a link to the article from June 2024, CLICK HERE. You can also watch a video which documents the accuracy of the article, CLICK HERE.