Jay Rockefeller
Former United States SenatorWikipedia
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Sep 28, 2026
Joe LachanceHOST
We're talking this is when all the craziness came in, the medical system.
Joe LachanceHOST
This is when Rockefeller took over the medical system and banned all natural remedies, changed the whole U.S. pharmacopoeia, right? This is when industrial farming started to come in.
Joe LachanceHOST
You started seeing these big farms.
Joe LachanceHOST
This is where railroads were starting to be big.
18 MINS LATER
Joe LachanceHOST
And as a matter of fact, those guys actually got called out for it.
Joe LachanceHOST
They had to go to court.
Joe LachanceHOST
Monopoly, Jay Rockefeller, all that.
Joe LachanceHOST
People don't know their history.
John DesserGUEST
But he made sure enough Democrats were there to vote for it so that it would pass, 'cause he understood the concept of getting half a loaf and then going back and tr- and trying for more later.
John DesserGUEST
But I was told that after Kennedy passed away, Jay Rockefeller went up to Harry Reid at the Tuesday lunch, at the Tuesday policy lunch, and was screaming at him saying, "Tell Baucus to stop these negotiations with Grassley because they're never gonna vote for this anyway, and we just need to pass it on Democratic votes."
Joe GroganHOST
Yeah.
John DesserGUEST
And Re- and Harry Reid caved to that, and Baucus had to fold up what he was doing.
Margaret FlinterHOST
Who the heck were the Mountain, the Mountain, uh, Mamas?
James W. Hunt Jr.GUEST
They were, uh, board members and executive directors from rural West Virginia with Jay Rockefeller as a, a Democratic governor-
Margaret FlinterHOST
Yeah, yeah
James W. Hunt Jr.GUEST
... and a House of Representatives that was leaning toward the block grants.