Will `Playboy Tape' Be Davis' Undoing in Virginia Race?

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RICHMOND - A videotape that shows Gilbert K. Davis of Fairfax - already in the news as the lawyer for Paula Corbin Jones in her suit against President Clinton - volunteering to help a client appear in Playboy is shaking up Virginia's four-way Republican nomination battle for attorney general.

"Republican voters are conservative in primaries like this and they're going to be looking for an explanation," said state Sen. Ken Stolle of Virginia Beach, one of Mr. Davis' three GOP rivals in the June 10 primary.

"Potentially, it could have a huge impact on the race."

The Roanoke Times first reported Wednesday that in 1994, Mr. Davis made a lewd joke to a …