Phil Stacker (Johnsonverse)

Phillip James Stacker, Sr. (b. August 7, 1951) is an Italian-American politician. He was the 49th Lieutenant Governor of California from January 10, 2011 to January 7, 2019. Before taking this role, Stacker was President and CEO of Stacker and Associates from 1974 to 1991, and 1993 to 2010. He was also the CEO of Stacker's Bistro from 1977 to 1979, CEO of Johnson Industries from 1981 to 1991, ran for President in 2000, and wrote his memoir UnSTACKed in 2002. 2020 Presidential candidate Sheldon Johnson, Jr. has confirmed that Stacker will be his Secretary of State if he gets elected.

Early life
Since

Buyout
On June 1, 1981, Stacker bought Johnson Industries in a shocking announcement (the company was later revealed to have been bought without permission by the Johnson Family).

The Fall of Johnson Industries....
The first thing Stacker did was kick out then-CEO Sheldon Johnson and the entire Johnson Family. Stacker was clearly more interested in money than catering to the masses, and this showed during his tenure, which was declared "The Dark Times" by both Stacker's critics and the Johnson Family. Johnson-owned WBC was renamed JTV (Johnson TV), as Stacker didn't want it confused with "the other WBC" (the Westboro Baptist Church). In one radio interview in 1984, Stacker accidentally called his employees "drones". He even got rid of scripted programming from Johnson Radio, in a rather unpopular move.

....Or Is It?
In 1987, during a progress meeting,

Mental Breakdown and Arrest
Things seemed to be improving, but on

Personal life
Stacker is a second-generation businessman, and the son of Kristian Giorgio Sacchetti (September 15, 1907-January 11, 1998) and Diana Noemi Goterelli (October 15, 1921-September 29, 2018), both of them Italians (they changed their surnames upon moving to St. Louis, MO during World War II). He has been married to Helga Stacker (née Wolf) since September 29, 1978. They have three children, Eliza Karissa (b. September 7, 1982), Phillip James Jr. and Christopher William (b. March 6, 1986). Stacker is also fluent in Italian and French.