He also appeared in "Rag Tag Champs," a 1978 ABC Afterschool Special and an episode of the Lou Grant show in addition to performing in multiple television commercials.
Measure B concentrated its funding on San Leandro High School by expanding the campus to address the overcrowding, removing student parking on the main campus to a new, adjacent lot, constructing an arts education center with a performing arts theater, modernizing the Career Technical Education facilities and expanding the school library.
No other governmental agency depends upon car washes, bake sales and magazine subscription drives to survive.”[7] In 2007, Cassidy organized the largest anti-Iraq War protest that occurred in San Leandro.
“When the president is wrong and the lives of Americans are at stake, it is incumbent upon the people in each community to step forward and voice their opposition.”[8] Cassidy chose not to seek re-election in 2008.
[15] Together, Cassidy and Kennedy "began developing the public-private partnership that would become Lit San Leandro," a high speed, fiber optic broadband network.
[18][19] The following year, Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, visited San Leandro at Cassidy's invitation and praised the city "as a model for the country" in developing private-public partnerships to create fiber optic networks.
With other funding, the city's donation was intended to keep the hospital open until it could achieve profitability as part of its transfer to public ownership by the Alameda Health System.
[31][32] Cassidy proposed flying the rainbow pride flag at San Leandro City Hall during the same week in 2013 that the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the cases challenging California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
[34] Cassidy sided with human rights activists that argued raising the flag signaled the city condoned oppression and abuses by the Chinese government against Tibetans and other peoples.
“By dedicating a public location in Surlene Grant’s name, we show that San Leandro acknowledges the racism of its past, embraces its diversity of today, and is a welcoming community for all in the future," Cassidy wrote.
The same year, he oversaw the successful campaign for Measure VV which increased the real property transfer tax for the City of San Leandro.