Shmoo & Ozzie Go to Washington, a self-published children's book about bipartisanship written by two high schoolers, Ellie Gottheimer and Larra Mullin, received favorable coverage this summer in The New York Times and Fox News. The national media coverage was partly because the two teenagers are the daughters of Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D–N.J.) and Markwayne Mullin, the former Oklahoma Republican senator, now the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Shmoo is from the city and Ozzie is from a ranch, but the two pups put aside their differences when their beloved dog park is threatened with closure. Rather than asking why the dog park is fiscally unsound, they lobby the Dog Congress, where both their fathers are lawmakers, to fund their pet project.
