At the Catapillar fiasco press conference yesterday, Obama asked the employees to lobby new Republican congressman Aaron Schock to vote for the stimulus to make it seem more bipartisan.  Instead, over 1,000 employees told him to vote against it.

 http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/13/obama-asks-workers-to-tell-congressman-to-vote-for-stimulus-no-one-does/