Phil Stacker (Johnsonverse)

Phillip James Stacker (b. June 27, 1954) is the current Lieutenant Governor of California. Before taking this role, Stacker was President and CEO of Stacker and Associates from 1972 to 1991, and 1993 to 2010. He was also the CEO of Johnson Industries from 1981 to 1991, and wrote his memoir UnSTACKed in 2002.

Buyout
On June 1, 1981, after a failed attempt to buy it in 1973, 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,

Personal life
Stacker is a second-generation businessman, and the son of Kenneth George Stacker (September 15, 1919-December 1, 2009) and Diane Caroline Williams (October 15, 1921-September 29, 2018). He has been married to Helga Marie Stacker (nee Ansari) since September 29, 1978. They have three children, Eliza Philippine (b. September 7, 1984), Phillip James Jr. (b. March 6, 1990) and Christopher William (b. July 29, 1995).