Beto O'Rourke apologizes for the 1991 remark on female artists in the Broadway show

US Senate candidate Beto O. Rourke apologized on Monday for his criticism of a Broadway play that he had written at Columbia University, in which he criticized the performance of "actresses" whose only qualifications seem to be their extremely big breasts and their tight buttocks. "

"I am ashamed of what I wrote and I apologize," said the Texas congressman in a statement issued by Politico, who recounted the story. "There is no excuse for making disrespectful and degrading comments about women."

The old magazine was unveiled by an opponent of the Democratic O'Rourke and his campaign to overthrow Republican Senator Ted Cruz in Texas, according to Politico, who had not given more information about the person who had warned them . Opposition research is a common practice in political campaigns to extract detrimental information from opponents and secretly leak it to the press.

The review of The Will Rogers Follies, published by O. Rourke, was published in the Columbia Daily Spectator student newspaper on October 10, 1991. O. Rourke had just turned 19 and he criticized the production, a musical about Will Rogers' career life, writing that it was "one of the most glaring examples of the nauseating excesses and moral degradations of our culture".

"Keith Carradine, in the main role, is surrounded by actresses with a smile-perma smile whose only qualifications seem to be their incredibly big tits and tight buttocks," O'Rourke wrote.

O'Rourke runs against Cruz in a surprisingly competitive race. An average of polls on RealClearPolitics indicates that Cruz has a 4.5 point lead over O'Rourke and presents the race as a hot shot.