Play ball! That’s what’s going on in purple-state Colorado as Democrats and Republicans get in some spring training on “tainted” donations with November elections in mind.

Monday the Colorado Democratic Party was shopping around a story about a new Super PAC called Fighting for Colorado based in Washington, D.C., and led by California GOP consultant Erik Brown.

Brown made news outside the political shadows in 2010 when he picked up the nearly $2,000 tab for a group of “Young Eagles” Republicans for their outing at a bondage-themed strip club in West Hollywood. He sought reimbursement from the Republican National Committee,  move that exposed the whole embarrassing episode for the Grand Old Party. Ultimately an RNC staffer was fired.

According to the Secretary of State’s Office, Fighting for Colorado has reported no money since it registered in December. Brown’s company, DMI Direct, prints mailers and does other work for Republican candidates.

Despite several attempts by Colorado Politics, the state Democrats haven’t been nearly as eager to talk – at least not on the record – about roughly $70,000 the state party received from donors affiliated with Backpage.com in 2014. Republicans want Democrats to give that money back, since Backpage has been linked to human trafficking, including children, in classified ads that allegedly promote prostitution.

Then in a Tuesday morning press release, Colorado Democrats called on Colorado Republicans to give back more than $81,000 of Steve Wynn’s “tainted money.”

The Las Vegas casino mogul stepped down as the RNC’s finance chairman – which means major fundraiser – as well as  from his company, Wynn Resorts, over sexual misconduct allegations.

The state Democratic Party points out that the Wynn also has put more than $100,000 this election cycle into the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which is chaired by Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner of Yuma.

“Every single day, the Colorado Republican Party uses money raised by accused sexual predator Steve Wynn – the disgraced former RNC finance chair – to defend an admitted sexual predator – Donald Trump,” Morgan Carroll, the state Democratic chairman, said in a statement. “The Colorado Republican Party should return this dirty money, and Republican candidates should pledge not to use any Wynn-tainted funds for the 2018 election cycle.

The Carroll statement continued, “Similarly, Senator Cory Gardner, Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has taken $100,000 in cash this cycle from Steve Wynn’s personal account to elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate, and has accepted over $400,000 from the Republican National Committee. Gardner should also return this scandal-tainted money.”

The Colorado Democrats also tagged the Republican Governor’s Association with $350,000 from Wynn companies for this November’s races.

But it was only a few weeks ago that the Republican Attorneys General Association was saying much the same thing about Colorado Democrats whot too money related to Backpage.com. RAGA called on Democratic candidates for attorney general to denounce the donations.

“This evil is not going away and Coloradans deserve to know where these Dem candidates stand,” Zack Roday, a spokesman for RAGA said in a Jan. 11 email to Colorado Politics.

On Jan. 25, the Colorado Republican Party sent out an email to reporters about the Backpage donations: “The Colorado Democratic Party continues to ignore questions about its donations from Backpage executives.”

The state GOP said Jeff Hays was on a military base without cell phone service Tuesday. When he’s available, if Hays decides to comment on Wynn, this story will be updated prominently