^"Dry Los Angeles Mayor Wins in Recall Vote; Decliner of French Wine Toast Swamps Foes". نيويورك تايمز. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2016-03-05. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2015-06-25. John Clinton Porter, as stanch a dry as the day he declined a wine toast to the French Republic at Havre, marshaled nearly 200,000 votes around his prohibition and other precepts today and was victorious in a recall election by a majority of more than 50,000.
^Cecilia Rasmussen (16 نوفمبر 1997). "A Mayor Who Stood for Reform". لوس أنجلوس تايمز. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2016-03-07. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2015-06-25. And few among them were more colorful than John Clinton Porter, whose unique mixture of reform politics and xenophobic Protestant populism took him quite literally from the junk yard to City Hall.
