[5] He was one of the sponsors of an unsuccessful bill for a statewide referendum in favor of a right-to-work law.
[7] He ran for the Republican nomination for the 4th Wisconsin State Senate district, losing narrowly (8803 to 8903) to eventual winner Kirby Hendee in a three-way primary race[8] in which he carried the rest of the district, but lost by a hefty margin in Hendee's home village of Shorewood.
At a 1957 Milwaukee County Republican meeting, Kasik referred to the state's United States senators Alexander Wiley and Joe McCarthy (themselves both Republicans) as "the senior [and] the junior windbags from Wisconsin".
[10] In 1964, Kasik (now living in Mequon and working as an insurance agent[11]) was one of three challengers to incumbent State Representative (and Assistant Majority Leader) J. Curtis McKay of Ozaukee County (a Goldwater supporter[12]) in the Republican primary, coming in second with 1495 to McKay's 2317; McKay went on to win re-election in the general election,[13] although the Goldwater candidacy was generally considered a disaster for the Republican Party statewide.
[14] In 1979, Kasik was again a candidate for a Republican assembly nomination, but his candidacy was clouded by allegations that he had borrowed excessively from his mother's estate;[15] he came in a distant third, with less than one-fourth the votes of eventual victor Betty Jo Nelsen.