[5] Baise spent his final two summers of college as an intern at the United States House of Representatives at the time of the Watergate hearings.

[4][11] Under Baise, an emergency number *999 was created as the Cellular Express Line to be used by expressway motorists with mobile phones (then on the rise) in the Chicago-area.

They also, at the urging of newly elected Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, added the proposed Lake Calumet airport to their study.

[19] November 16, 1989, Baise resigned as Secretary of Transportation in order to focus on his campaign running for Illinois treasurer in 1990.

[7] One of Baise's campaign proposals was to establish a "College Savings Plan" to enable the treasurer's office to help students and families afford the cost of higher education.

[15] He also pledged that he would request the Illinois General Assembly establish an advisory board to give him recommendations on where he should invest state money.

[7] During his campaign, there was an incident in which his two-engine plane lost power and landed in a wheat field near Pontiac, Illinois.

[9] Quinn accused Baise of improper conduct by accepting a loan from a road contractor while serving as Illinois Secretary of Transportation.

[4] As head of the organization, Baise quickly involved himself in lobbying business issues, including regulatory reforms such as the deregulation of electrical utilities and efforts to alter workers' compensation laws.

[9] IMA was involved with successfully pushing for the repeal of the Illinois Structural Work Act, the institution of the Manufacturer's Purchase Credit, the passage of significant reforms to workers' compensation and unemployment insurance, major reforms to tort law and education policies, and the passage of landmark hydraulic fracturing legislation.

He also announced that he would continue to head the organizations' subsidiary for-profit political strategy and marketing firm Xpress Professional Services.

[5] In 2008, Baise and Ronald Gidwitz formed the Economic Freedom Alliance, a 527 organization, to oppose the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.

[5] Baise has served as treasurer of New Prosperity Foundation political action committee since it was founded during the 2010 election cycle.

[36][37] In 2019, Baise founded the Vote No on Blank Check Amendment Committee to oppose the Illinois Fair Tax.

[7] At various points of his life Baise has lived in various places in Illinois, including Chicago, Jacksonville,[4] Lemont,[40] Oak Brook, Springfield,[7] and Willowbrook.