[1] Due to his publishing power in the southwest, he helped launch the political careers of Barry Goldwater, Lyndon B. Johnson, Lloyd Bentsen and other politicians.

In 1952, Casady met and became friends with Barry Goldwater, who was a Phoenix City Council member and a candidate for the United States Senate.

Shortly after riding in a motorcade with presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, Casady resigned and moved to San Diego, where he bought the El Cajon Valley News and turned it into The Daily Californian.

"[9] Until his expulsion in 1971, Casady worked in Singapore for three years as a consultant with the Executive Overseas Service Corps during the government of Lee Kuan Yew.

[11] His campaign organization was headquartered at the eighteen-room Guymon House, a mansion in the upper class Mission Hills neighborhood of San Diego that was owned by his son Kent and daughter-in-law Janed.