Thank you for your patience as our City of Clearwater team is working extremely hard to assist displaced families, clear streets and roads, and restore essential services. There is a lot to repair on our world-renowned beach, but we grow stronger as a city by doing it together.
Please help our first responders and utility workers by staying off the streets, which are not fully open and functioning, as much as possible today. Working together to recover asap and make Clearwater shine brighter than ever.
#ClearwaterShines
#StrongerTogether
#FloridaStrong
Proud to have the opportunity to represent Clearwater tonight by throwing out my first ever first pitch and inspire the Phillies to a rout of the Guardians 😂
#clearwaterthrives
#phillies
Let’s be safe. Regardless of any property damage that occurs, we will build back Clearwater and Tampa Bay better than ever. Let’s all work together now though to keep our families, first responders and relief workers safe during this storm.
#StrongerTogether
#ClearwaterPrepares
Thank you President Biden, Governor DeSantis and Senator Scott for all calling me directly to share your concerns and offer support to Clearwater. Please protect your family and any vulnerable neighbors as Hurricane Milton approaches today.
#clearwaterprepares
#FloridaStrong
Celebrating the dedication of the 900th Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas and West Pasco Counties home this morning with first Board Chair Norm Bungard and other Pinellas County leaders. Many of those 900 homes in Clearwater!
#clearwaterthrives
#AffordableHousing
#onecommunity
So proud to have the Wounded Warriors Abilities Ranch Annual Gala taking place in Clearwater this evening. Thank you to WWAR CEO Mike Delancey, Jr., General Bryan Fenton and Fox 13 News Anchor Mark Wilson for leading this great event.
#woundedwarrior
#adaptivesports
#clearwaterFL
It was my great pleasure to congratulate Clearwater’s newest homeowners, the Rosa Family, this morning.
@HabitatPWP
continues to make a great impact on many lives in our community.
#clearwaterthrives
#HabitatForHumanity
We celebrated Dr. Willy Rice’s 20 years as Pastor of Calvary Church tonight. Calvary has grown and prospered under Pastor Rice’s leadership and we are so thankful that God called him to Clearwater 20 years ago.
#ClearwaterBelieves
#Faith
#Leadership
#Community
Engaging with participants, including Miss Moo-riah Carey , this morning at Clearwater’s monthly Market Marie. This growing market is playing an important role in fully activating Coachman Park and our bluff area.
#mooriahcarey
#marketmarie
#clearwaterthrives
Wishing you a Happy 727 Day from just outside the spot where our great country began. Let’s celebrate our amazing 727 community today and the many reasons that Pinellas County is the best place on earth to live, work and play.
#Happy727Day
#clearwaterthrives
#GodBlessAmerica
Thank you Island Way Grill for feeding first responders and city workers this morning as they have done, and continue to do, incredible work to restore essential services to Clearwater Beach.
#ClearwaterRecovers
#FloridaStrong
Thank you Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas and West Pasco Counties for the affordable homes you build, but more importantly, the many lives you positively touch snd change in Clearwater and throughout our region.
#GlowGala
#AffordableHousing
#HabitatForHumanity
Had such a great time tonight participating in the first graduation ever held at the BayCare Sound. Congratulations to the Clearwater High School Class of 2024!
#clearwaterthrives
#OurYouthOurFuture
Thank you Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson for hosting the Republican Mayors Association Advisory Board meeting. I had a great time discussing city leadership challenges with mayors from across the United States and how we can work together to make a difference in even more communities.
When two University of Kentucky athletics alumni meet up at the Republican National Convention. Great conversation with
@RileyGaines_
today in Milwaukee.
#GoBigBlue
#GOP
A moving experience as a leader to sit and pray for our country this week in the same pew George Washington once did and in the same church where the Second Continental Congress worshiped as a body and prayed daily after deliberations.
#GodBlesstheUSA
#FoundedonFaith
Congratulations to the Belleair Women’s Republican Club on its 60th Anniversary and to the amazing Deb Walker on being recognized with the 2024 Outstanding Member Service Award today.
Busy day today speaking with Governor DeSantis about Clearwater and visiting The Standard Apartments to facilitate relief efforts for the over 500 residents displaced. We are all working together to recover and make Clearwater better than ever.
#ClearwaterShines
#FloridaStrong
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays us from our annual Father’s Day golf outing. A little wet and a day early due to
@T_Rector12
business travel tomorrow but I couldn’t be more blessed to be a dad to this great son. Happy Father’s Day to all.
#Fathersday2024
Watching and talking basketball with some really great neighborhood kids tonight as Clearwater High plays Indian Rocks Christian in the Boys High School Basketball JV Summer League.
#clearwaterkids
#OurYouthOurFuture
#summerbasketball
Congratulations to Clearwater’s newest homeowner Monica Cowan who works full-time in healthcare and built her home “for my daughter’s future.” Thank you
@HabitatPWP
for building the future for many kids in Clearwater and throughout our region.
#ClearwaterThrives
Moving experience tonight supporting the 2024 Graduates of PACE Center for Girls, Pinellas. PACE helps girls who are struggling with histories of abuse, unhealthy relationships, and facing a wide range of serious risks by introducing hope, love, and change into their lives.
#hope
The polls are open today from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Hoping you encourage everyone you know in Clearwater to vote
#brucerectorformayor
in this important election.
Thank you Tampa Bay media outlets for coverage of our press conference yesterday recognizing the amazing work of our city team to reopen streets, hotels and businesses so quickly but asking for patience from non-residents before coming out.
#Clearwaterthrives
#FloridaStrong
Thank you to
@BayCare
CEO Stephanie Conners, many BayCare team members and Sleeping in Heavenly Peace for assembling 90 beds today at an awesome Bed Build event and helping to make sure ”no kid sleeps on the floor in our town.”
#BayCareProud
#SHPbeds
#clearwaterthrives
Awesome finish tonight to the 2024 Republican National Convention with our friend and Clearwater neighbor Hulk Hogan doing an awesome job warming up the crowd.
#RNC2024
#clearwaterinspirea
#floridaleads
Welcoming the Islander and the Margaritaville at Sea cruise line to Port Tampa Bay tonight and congratulating Savannah Buffett on her christening of the ship.
#porttampabay
#liveworkplay
It was crazy hot this afternoon
@Pier60ClwBeach
, especially for DJ Kitty, but we had a great time cheering on the Tampa Bay Rays against the Toronto Blue Jays and talking baseball with fans and the great folks at Tampa Bay’s Sports Radio WDAE.
#RaysUp
#clearwaterthrives
I wasn’t much help with catching fish this morning but had a really great time supporting participants at the Make A Difference Fishing Tournament this morning. This awesome organization has helped children and adults with disabilities through fishing tournaments for 29 years.
Thank you Clearwater and Pinellas County Fire Departments for organizing an awesome Fire Ops 101 program for city and county officials from throughout Pinellas County. Great experience and information to help us all lead better!
#clearwaterinspires
#SupportFirstResponders
Great morning attending the Clearwater Police Department Awards Program and meeting families of the officers honored. Thankful for the law enforcement professionals that protect and serve our city and the families that support them.
#clearwaterthrives
#backtheblue
#BehindTheBadge
Congratulations to Clearwater Police Department Detective Paul Balmer on being recognized as the National VFW Police Officer of the Year. Thank you to Clearwater’s VFW District 9 Post 10304 Clearwater, Florida for nominating Det. Balmer for this national award.
#clearwaterthrives
Great meeting today with Brian Lowack and the Visit St. Pete-Clearwater Team to discuss the annual 727 Day Celebration this weekend. Thank you to the many Clearwater businesses that are offering special deals on Saturday!
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs... It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 4, 5 & 7
Awesome to get a chance tonight to join 3-time Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer Brooke Bennett in wishing Clearwater’s Noah Lyons the best before he heads off to compete in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games in iQFOiL Windsurfing.
#clearwaterinspires
#2024ParisOlympics
Great conversations last night with Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna and Pinellas County School Board Candidate Danielle Marolf about Clearwater, Tampa Bay and national issues.
#clearwaterthrives
#leadership
#collaboration
Congratulations to Kevin and Jamila Orellana on receiving the keys this morning to their new Habitat for Humanity home in Clearwater. So much love has been poured into this home already and they announced are expecting their first child.
#HabitatForHumanity
#brucerectorformayor
Great day for Clearwater yesterday as we broke ground on Clearwater Gardens, a new affordable housing project by Archway Partners with support from Raymond James Bank.
This project is estimated to be completed in Fall 2025.
#AffordableHousing
#ClearwaterThrives
#workingfamilies
Great conversation with United States Army soldiers and Medal of Honor recipient S.Sergeant David Bellavia. Clearwater is honoring all of our military today with a parade, ceremony and music festival in Coachman Park.
#clearwaterhonors
#MemorialDay
#HonorFest
What a great new venue and live music attraction in Downtown Clearwater. Congratulations to entrepreneurs Tony Tello and Robert Cepeda on the Grand Opening of The Nash Keys in its new, creative and impressive space on Cleveland Street.
#ClearwaterThrives
#LiveMusic
#SmallBusiness
Thank you Blessed Cup coffee for coming out to Clearwater Beach this morning and serving distressed residents, first responders and city workers. Our City of Clearwater employees are doing amazing and exhausting work to help our residents.
Awesome to speak with, and help, a number people here this afternoon filling and collecting sand bags, not for themselves, but for their elderly neighbors. Love the way Clearwater and Floridians pull together in tough moments.
#ClearwaterPrepares
#stormready
#besafe