Dover, Florida

Dover is a small unincorporated community on the eastern edge of Hillsborough County, with its character shaped by the agricultural land, family-run farms, and rural neighborhoods that have defined the area for generations. It sits between Plant City and Seffner along the State Road 60 corridor, a community where the pace is slower, the families are tighter, and the values are unmistakably conservative.

Dover's churches, family farms, and long-time residents anchor a community life that has barely changed in character even as the surrounding county has grown rapidly. The faces are familiar. The land is the same. And the values — family, faith, fiscal discipline, property rights — are the same as they have been for decades.

John Peters regularly visits Dover and the surrounding agricultural communities of eastern Hillsborough. He has met with growers, ranchers, and rural-property residents over the years to understand the federal issues that actually affect family farms — and the gap between Washington's agricultural rhetoric and the practical realities of working land.

Dover is shaped by faith, family, and the working land. Kathy Castor's eighteen-year record reflects a federal-expansion agenda that has not served family-farming Florida — and her votes on energy, regulation, and trade have made it harder, not easier, to keep working land in working hands. After nine terms, Dover deserves a representative whose record reflects rural Hillsborough's actual values.