Running for Mayor of Boulder · 2026
Jameson Goldstein
Goldstein, also known as “Jamo,” is a first-time mayoral candidate and a CU Boulder student.
Money (city clerk; 14th day before election report, filed Oct. 22, 2026; retrieved Oct. 30, 2026): raised $800 · spent $458.24 · matching funds received $0.
About this candidate
Goldstein, also known as “Jamo,” is a first-time mayoral candidate and a CU Boulder student. His proposals include changes to housing taxation and ending the city’s Flock Safety camera contract.
- Occupation: Student
Bio sources: boulderreportinglab.org
In their own words
Short passages from questionnaires, interviews and the campaign website, by topic. If a topic is missing, we have no quote on it. That says nothing about their view.
Downtown
I think a Downtown Development Authority could be a useful tool for revitalizing downtown Boulder, but I do not think creating another government entity automatically fixes the problems we are facing.
Source: Better Boulder · questionnaire · Where do Boulder’s 2026 Mayorial Candidates Stand?
Governance
I think the City’s current priorities are largely centered around long-term financial stability and our backlog of infrastructure needs, public safety and homelessness, and housing affordability.
Source: Better Boulder · questionnaire · Where do Boulder’s 2026 Mayorial Candidates Stand?
Housing
Yes. Boulder needs more housing choices, especially duplexes and triplexes that can help families and middle-income resident stay here.
Source: Better Boulder · questionnaire · Where do Boulder’s 2026 Mayorial Candidates Stand?
Privacy
We must cancel our Flock ‘Safety’ contract.
Source: Campaign website: Jameson Goldstein · campaign website · Campaign priorities: Jameson Goldstein
Transportation
Yes. Completing the Core Arterial Network is essential to making biking, walking, and transit safer and more practical citywide.
Source: Better Boulder · questionnaire · Where do Boulder’s 2026 Mayorial Candidates Stand?
What reporters wrote
These are the reporter's words about the candidate, not the candidate's own.
Goldstein is running on a platform of affordability and opposition to the city’s contract with Flock Safety, which supplies Boulder’s automatic license plate readers. He proposes an excise tax on…
Goldstein is running on a platform of affordability and opposition to the city’s contract with Flock Safety, which supplies Boulder’s automatic license plate readers. He proposes an excise tax on corporations that own more than 75 Boulder housing units and would use the revenue to subsidize rental assistance. He also supports keeping Boulder Municipal Airport open.
Boulder Reporting Lab · 2026-08-28 · Profile source: Jameson Goldstein
“Right now, there’s a very large subsection of the Boulder population that finds it very difficult to even make ends meet and pay rent,” he said.
Richard Valenty · 2026-09-16 · Candidate interview: Jameson Goldstein
1 further passage (Daily Camera) not shown yet. We could not find the quoted words in the article, so we are holding them until we can check.
Endorsements
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What the labels on each endorsement mean
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- The organization or person announced it themselves (their site, their press release, or a news story reprinting that release).
- “X campaign lists Y”
- Only the candidate's (or ballot campaign's) own website says so. We didn't find the endorser saying it. It may be true, but it is the campaign's claim.
- City filing
- A committee's registration with the city clerk names the candidate or measure it supports.
- News listing
- A news outlet lists the endorsement, but we did not find the endorser's own statement.
Titles (e.g. “U.S. Representative”) are as printed on the cited page and describe the person, not an endorsement by their office. A blank title means the source did not give one.
No endorsements on file. That is not opposition.
Endorsements they have given (2026)
These are personal endorsements, not ones made by any office they hold.
- Supports: City 2L: Collective bargaining for firefighters (new Charter §73)Boulder Firefighters for a Stronger Boulder ballot campaign lists Jameson Goldstein. Only the campaign says so. 2L Endorsements – Boulder Firefighters for a Stronger Boulder
At the forums, in their own words
Short passages from 2026 candidate forums, by topic, with the question and a link to that moment in the recording. Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. If a topic is missing, we have no quote on it. Compare answers to the same question.
Housing
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
(EFA) What specific policies, development strategies, funding approaches, or partnerships would you pursue to increase or preserve housing affordable to families at approximately 30 to 40 percent AMI?
reduce legal red tape in order to set up accessory dwelling units, or ADUs.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:22:39 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
What types of housing would you prioritize? How are you as mayor going to promote housing for middle-income families?
is to implement this vacancy tax.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:45:30 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Ballot issue 2J, the residential vacancy excise tax (~$4,000 on residential property vacant more than half the year). Do you support this tax and will it generate enough income to pay for administering it?
Yes on 2J (the vacancy tax), in their words below.
I'm 100% in support of this vacancy tax.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:50:37 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
Budget, debt and the 2K bond
Arts and culture forum · September 15, 2026
If elected mayor, how would you use your leadership role to help ensure that adopted plans are translated into action and that major projects are delivered responsibly and within budget?
It's a $350 million project that's going to house about 300 employees, so over a million dollars per employee.
Transcript note: Referring to Alpine-Balsam.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 11:59 · (Pt 3/5) 2026 City Council Candidates Forum on Arts and Culture (Boulder County Arts Alliance, YouTube)
Arts and culture forum · September 15, 2026
If elected mayor, how would you use your leadership role to help ensure that adopted plans are translated into action and that major projects are delivered responsibly and within budget?
I think the best way that we can do this is by bringing in an independent auditor.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 12:22 · (Pt 3/5) 2026 City Council Candidates Forum on Arts and Culture (Boulder County Arts Alliance, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Ballot measure 2K: Boulder voters will consider authorizing up to $400 million in new debt through additional property taxes for recreation, public safety and other city facilities. Do you support this measure? Why or why not?
No on 2K (the $400 million bond), in their words below.
I 100 percent do not support this measure.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:28:01 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Ballot measure 2K: Boulder voters will consider authorizing up to $400 million in new debt through additional property taxes for recreation, public safety and other city facilities. Do you support this measure? Why or why not?
If we want to do a bond we need to bring it from the bottom up instead of having City Council propose the bond.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:28:29 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
Transportation
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
What are your feelings about the bus-only lanes and the core arterial network (CAN)? Should Boulder continue prioritizing protected bike lanes?
No yes/no label: Implicit; no explicit yes/no in this quote.
That means completing the core arterial network.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:39:38 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
What are your feelings about the bus-only lanes and the core arterial network (CAN)? Should Boulder continue prioritizing protected bike lanes?
I think it is important we place limitations on e-moto bicycles
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:39:50 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
Climate and wildfire
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Mayoral opening statement (one minute)
Right now, we process 6 billion gallons of water a year, and 2 billion of those gallons are used for lawns.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:11:35 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
Empower Our Future climate forum · October 6, 2026
Mayoral opening introduction, climate and energy forum (one minute)
I think it's important that we incentivize homeowners to install natural foliage as opposed to lawns in order to conserve about 2 billion gallons of water per year.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 7:21 · Empower Hour 2026-10-06 Climate & Energy Forum with Boulder Boulder Mayoral Candidates. (Empower Our Future, YouTube)
Empower Our Future climate forum · October 6, 2026
Climate hushing: political leaders now seem reluctant to connect negative everyday experiences to climate change and its driver, carbon pollution. How do you plan to be vocal and lead on climate?
I think it's important that we bring awareness to this issue, but we don't bring awareness to it in a way where people are fearful of what's to come.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 15:26 · Empower Hour 2026-10-06 Climate & Energy Forum with Boulder Boulder Mayoral Candidates. (Empower Our Future, YouTube)
Empower Our Future climate forum · October 6, 2026
Xcel says it will deliver 100% clean electricity by 2050, not Boulder's 2030 goal, and has presented no concrete plan under the 2020 franchise agreement. What remedies would you propose for Xcel's failures to deliver, at the city level, at the PUC, or at the state level? And would you be open to inviting cities that have gone to market for their electricity to come to Boulder to educate us about life after Xcel?
I think it's very important that we take this issue to the state level.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 36:59 · Empower Hour 2026-10-06 Climate & Energy Forum with Boulder Boulder Mayoral Candidates. (Empower Our Future, YouTube)
Empower Our Future climate forum · October 6, 2026
Xcel is preparing a decade-long remediation of nearly 2 million tons of coal ash at the Valmont power station. Should Boulder use its franchise and partnership agreements with Xcel to require strong, independent air quality monitoring throughout the cleanup? And if so, how specifically would you do this?
So overall, listen to the community and listen to the scientists on this one.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 39:03 · Empower Hour 2026-10-06 Climate & Energy Forum with Boulder Boulder Mayoral Candidates. (Empower Our Future, YouTube)
Arts and culture
Arts and culture forum · September 15, 2026
What is one action you would prioritize during your term to strengthen Boulder's creative ecosystem and keep Boulder competitive?
You see a lot of these real estate companies, what they're doing is essentially leaving these areas vacant because it's more cost effective for them to keep prices high than to lower them
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 13:24 · (Pt 1/5) 2026 City Council Candidates Forum on Arts and Culture (Boulder County Arts Alliance, YouTube)
Arts and culture forum · September 15, 2026
Final one-minute statement
I would say that artists are a lot more important than businessmen because they create the culture that businessmen operate within.
Speaker identified from speaking order; the moderator did not name them.
Transcript note: Third of drawn names (Winer, Jamieson, Goldstein, Martus, Segal).
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 16:34 · (Pt 3/5) 2026 City Council Candidates Forum on Arts and Culture (Boulder County Arts Alliance, YouTube)
Homelessness and public safety
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
If elected, what is the single most important new initiative you would pursue during your first year as mayor? (30 seconds)
would be to begin the removal of flock cameras in Boulder.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:54:27 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Tell us about one city issue on which you changed your position after considering new evidence or another perspective. What changed your mind?
So I think we need to reduce pathways for transient homeless people to come into Boulder
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:58:59 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
Other topics
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Mayoral opening statement (one minute)
I think it's very important that we bring back a people-first approach.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:11:08 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
Mayoral opening statement (one minute)
we return to making our decisions by taking the inputs of the citizens of Boulder first, instead of implementing top-down measures.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:11:19 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
League of Women Voters forum · September 26, 2026
What are the unique roles of the Boulder mayor that make the job different from being a city council member?
Because right now the people of Boulder don't feel like they're heard.
Quoted from an automatic transcript. Check the recording. Watch at 2:17:13 · September 26, 2026 League of Women Voters of Boulder County Candidate Forum (City of Boulder, YouTube)
No earlier questionnaire answers on file.
Money
- $800Raised
- $458.24Spent
- $0Matching funds received
- $341.76Cash on hand
2026 · "Committee For the Election of Jameson 'Jamo' Goldstein", "C.F.E.J.G" · 14th day before election report, filed Oct. 22, 2026; retrieved Oct. 30, 2026.
8 contribution lines, 14 expenditures. City clerk, not TRACER. Clerk statements · Everyone.
Who gave: all 8 contribution lines
| Name | Type | Date | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connie Boswell Sluski | Monetary | 2026-10-15 | $100 |
| Kenneth Goldstein | Monetary | 2026-09-15 | $100 |
| Robert Goldstein | Monetary | 2026-10-05 | $100 |
| Benton Helzberg | Monetary | 2026-10-01 | $100 |
| Benjamin Malerba | Monetary | 2026-10-13 | $100 |
| Sandra Schiffman | Monetary | 2026-09-17 | $100 |
| David Weissman | Monetary | 2026-09-19 | $100 |
| Kenneth Wolfe | Monetary | 2026-09-16 | $100 |
Spent on: all 14 expenditure lines
| Payee | Purpose | Date | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staples | Campaign printing | 2026-10-10 | $165.04 |
| Boulder Drum Shop | Campaign expense at Boulder Drum Shop | 2026-10-10 | $70.87 |
| Squarespace, Inc. | Campaign website subscription and hosting | 2026-09-04 | $49.23 |
| Squarespace, Inc. | Campaign website hosting and Google Workspace subscription, October 4–November 4. Invoice #253532236 | 2026-10-04 | $49.23 |
| Staples | Campaign business cards / printing | 2026-09-20 | $33.84 |
| Michaels Stores 5115 | Campaign supplies | 2026-10-17 | $33.28 |
| Dollar Tree | Campaign supplies | 2026-10-10 | $16.38 |
| Squarespace, Inc. | Donation processing fees for contributions received 09/15/2026–09/19/2026 | 2026-09-19 | $12.80 |
| Squarespace, Inc. | Processing fees for Oct 5 and Oct 6 merchandise transactions | 2026-10-06 | $11.51 |
| Squarespace Inc | Processing fee | 2026-10-15 | $3.50 |
| Squarespace, Inc. | Processing fee for Benton Helzberg’s contribution | 2026-10-01 | $3.50 |
| Squarespace, Inc. | Processing fee for Robert Goldstein’s contribution | 2026-10-05 | $3.50 |
| Squarespace Inc | Processing fee | 2026-10-13 | $3.20 |
| Squarespace Inc | Processing fee | 2026-10-14 | $2.36 |
Campaigns
| Year | Office | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Mayor of Boulder · campaign | on the ballot |
Forum attendance
- 2026-10-06 Empower Hour: Climate and Energy Forum with Boulder Mayoral Candidates — attended · recording
- 2026-09-26 League of Women Voters of Boulder County City Council and Mayoral Candidate Forums — attended · recording
- 2026-09-15 2026 City Council Candidates Forum on Arts and Culture — attended · recording