Your paperwork, please

Hearst Newspapers’ congressional correspondent Judy Holland got a speedy and unexpected ride this morning to the opening session of the Republican National Convention with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and three of his staffers in a police-escorted Cadillac Escalade.

When they got to Madison Square Garden, Frist and his entourage including Holland swept past the long lines and security gates into an elevator, landing promptly outside the convention floor in record entry time for a reporter.

But as soon as Frist’s entourage headed inside the convention hall, Holland found herself alone and without the proper credentials. She was quickly escorted out of the building and back to the media center with the rest of the mere mortals.