LINCOLN- Last month, a judge ordered former U.S. Senate candidate and current head of the Lancaster County Republican Party, Matthew Innis, to cease communication with his wife and stay away from their once-shared home after she accused him of abuse and stalking in civil court filings. The judge's ruling came just a week after Innis was elected chairman of the Lancaster County GOP.

The order, issued on an emergency basis and can be either kept in place for a year, modified, or vacated altogether, came in response to the civil petition from Innis' wife, who also filed for divorce in January. In March, Judge McManaman also issued an order barring Innis and his wife from "disturbing the peace and quiet" of each other, but Innis' wife, in a July filing, argued that Innis had violating this exlusion order 11 times.

The July filing requested that the judge enact a protection order, with Innis' wife accusing the Lancaster GOP chairman of "severe post-separation abuse" in the form of repeated unannounced visits to her home. Neither Innis' attorney nor the Lancaster County GOP responded to questions regarding the accusations.

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