Gibsonton, Florida

Gibsonton sits along the Alafia River where it meets Tampa Bay, a community with a long history of small business, working families, and a famously distinctive heritage rooted in the carnival and circus families who wintered in the area for generations. Today Gibsonton is a working southern Hillsborough community of family-owned businesses, riverfront properties, and households along U.S. 41.

The community has grown alongside Riverview and Apollo Beach in recent years, but it has retained a working-class, independent character that is distinctly its own. Gibsonton residents value neighborhood safety, the small businesses that serve the community, and a federal government that respects working people.

John Peters regularly visits Gibsonton during his travels through southern Hillsborough. He has met with Gibsonton small business owners, working families, and longtime residents over the years to understand what a working-class community along the Alafia actually needs from Washington — predictable tax policy, real infrastructure investment, and a federal government that respects the way working communities operate.

Gibsonton families and small business owners feel every dollar of Washington's spending in their grocery bills and their power bills. Kathy Castor's eighteen-year record reflects consistent votes for federal expansion that has driven inflation and stretched working-family budgets thin. After nine terms, Gibsonton deserves a representative whose record reflects working southern Hillsborough's actual priorities.