LAST TICKET: GOP wooing of Rick Perry begins; Chuck Rangel says Weiner shouldn’t resign (The Ticket)

Here are the stories we took note of today but didn't give the full blog treatment:

• Republicans in key primary states are wooing Rick Perry for 2012. (Political Ticker)

• Jon Huntsman to meet with Henry Kissinger. (ABC News)

• Prosecutor who pursued Edwards is quitting. (AP)

• AMC Theaters will distribute a documentary about Sarah Palin. (Pop Watch)

• Charlie Rangel says Anthony Weiner shouldn't resign. (TPMDC)

• Rick Santorum launched his first radio ads. (Morning Call)

• Newt Gingrich's former staffers trash his wife, Callista. (Weekly Standard)

• Is it getting too late to run for president? (FiveThirtyEight)

• A "Draft Christie" effort was launched in South Carolina. (Political Ticker)

• Is Weiner broke? (NY Post)

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Wis. GOP Sen. Johnson calls on Weiner to resign (AP)

MILWAUKEE – Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has become the first Republican senator to call on U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (WEE'-ner) to resign.

Johnson told ABC's "Topline" on Thursday that he wished Weiner would resign "to get that story off the front page." He says the controversy distracts from pressing economic issues.

Weiner has repeatedly said he won't step down. The New York Democrat faces pressure from both parties after he admitted tweeting sexually charged messages and photos to at least six women and lying about it.

In a recent poll of registered voters in Weiner's district, 56 percent said he should stay in office while 33 percent said he should go.

A spokeswoman for Wisconsin's other senator, Democrat Herb Kohl, said he was traveling Friday and not immediately available for comment.

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