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WATCH: Kansas City Mayoral Candidate Jolie Justus Throws Axes With KCUR's Lisa Rodriguez

KCUR's Lisa Rodriguez sat down with Kansas City, Missouri, mayoral candidate Jolie Justus at Blade and Timber.
Mike Russo
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KCUR 89.3
KCUR's Lisa Rodriguez sat down with Kansas City, Missouri, mayoral candidate Jolie Justus at Blade and Timber.

Jolie Justus has built her mayoral campaign around pragmatism and the idea that Kansas City needs a mayor to focus on issues like affordable housing and crime — and focus on growing the city's profile on the national stage. 

And, as it turns out, she's also pretty darn good at throwing axes.

KCUR's Lisa Rodriguez went to Blade and Timber with Justus to chat about her time in the Missouri General Assembly, her four rescue dogs and a whole lot more.  Take a look here:

Lisa Rodriguez is the afternoon newscaster and covers Kansas City, Missouri, City Hall for KCUR 89.3. Follow her on Twitter @larodrig.

Videography by Mike Russo.

Cody Newill is an audience development specialist for KCUR 89.3. Follow him on Twitter @CodyNewill.

Copyright 2021 KCUR 89.3. To see more, visit KCUR 89.3.

Lisa Rodriguez is an Community Engagement intern.
Mike Russo is a Kansas City native and longtime public radio patron. In his past life he was a full-time professor at The University of Missouri – Columbia as a Marketing and Video Production lecturer in their Communication Studies Department. In addition to teaching and professionally working at various media organizations, Mike holds a Master’s Degree from The Rhode Island School of Design. Mike helped found the local music label The Record Machine and remains an avid music consumer in Kansas City. If you’ve found this and are reading to this point you can probably be savvy enough to check this all out on LinkedIn and get the info you really need about him from that place. In addition Mike is: married, always toying with diving in on the latest health fad, has a daughter, likes comics, and he will tell you about how much he likes comics/every nerd trope any chance he can get.
Cody Newill was born and raised in Independence, Missouri, and attended the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Cody won a Regional Edward R. Murrow award for his work curating kcur.org in 2017. But if you ask him, his true accomplishments lie in Twitter memes and using the term "Devil's lettuce" in a story.