No more Monday fundraiser in Texas for Senator John McCain. The event, which was to be hosted be 1990 gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams, got abruptly eighty-sixed after ABC News contacted the McCain campaign about a controversial Williams comment from way-back-when.

"These were obviously incredibly offensive remarks that the campaign was unaware of at the time it was scheduled," said spokesman Brian Rogers.

According to an AP story from March 1990, Williams compared rape to the bad weather. "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it," Williams said to ranchhands and reporters invited to the event. Here's a follow up to the story from the New York Times.

A McCain aide says he will not return the $300,000 already raised by the Midland Republican for Monday's canceled event.

The DNC pounced:

"Mr. Williams' comments are not only outrageous and disgusting, they degrade our values as Americans," Finney said in a statement. "John McCain should make it clear that he understands just how offensive these comments are by not only canceling a fundraising event but also returning the money Williams raised for his campaign. Senator McCain should know that you cannot expect the American people to trust you if you say one thing when you stand on the stump and turn a blind eye to this kind of language when you think no one will notice."

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