Eastern Hillsborough · FL-14
Dover, Florida
in Florida's 14th Congressional District
Dover is a small, agricultural-rooted community in eastern Hillsborough where rural Florida values and family-run farms still define daily life.
What makes Dover home.
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.
What Dover needs from Washington.
Dover families have real, practical stakes in what Congress does — and what it stops doing. These are the federal priorities John Peters will fight for on behalf of Dover:
- → Trade policy that protects Florida agriculture and family farms
- → Property rights protection from federal land-use overreach
- → USDA programs that support family farms and small growers
- → Property and crop insurance reform
- → Tax policy that protects family-owned operations from federal pass-through penalties
Meet John
John Peters in Dover.
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.
The Incumbent
Castor's record on what matters in Dover.
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.
See Castor's record →Issues that matter to Dover
Economic Growth & Jobs
Lower taxes, cut red tape, and unleash the economy of eastern and southern Hillsborough.
Constitutional Rights
Defend the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment for every law-abiding citizen in Hillsborough County.
Fiscal Responsibility & Balanced Budget
A Balanced Budget Amendment to stop Washington from spending more than it takes in.
Lowering Insurance Costs
Tort reform and real competition to bring down homeowners and auto premiums.