Beto O 'Rourke apologizes for his comments in the 1991 Music Review

US Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke apologized for his "disrespectful and degrading comments on women" in a 1991 musical theater journal published in his university newspaper that resurfaced on Monday.

"I'm ashamed of what I wrote and I'm sorry," the Texas Democrat said in a statement, according to Politico. "There is no excuse for making disrespectful and degrading comments about women."

The apology came after Politico had resurfaced O'Rourke's 1991 issue of The Will Rogers Follies in the Columbia University student newspaper Columbia. Daily spectator. (Politico reported that he had received information about the newspaper column written by "a person who opposes the O'Rourke Senate campaign" against Senator Ted Cruz.)

A 19-year-old college student in 1991, O 'Rourke called the musical "one of the most glaring examples of nauseating exaggerations and moral degradations of our culture" and wrote the actresses Big breasts and tight buttocks. "At the end of the exam, O 'Rourke said that he" was the youngest of the people in the crowd at about 60 years old ".

"Although it makes me angry," he wrote, "most people in this distant and distant generation really enjoyed the show and were very pleased with the performances."

As a Democratic challenger, O'Rourke is one-digit in polls against Cruz, who stands for re-election. Throughout his campaign, O'Rourke spoke of his arrest for drunk driving in 1998 – "a serious mistake" that he "talked about publicly over the last 20 years," he says. And the Texas Republican Party shared old Democrat photos on Twitter, but O'Rourke fans found humor in the dump.