Sounds to me like a variation of "My position doesn't matter"

Walker:  No comment on ex-aide's big pay raise.  (Green Bay Press-Gazette, 7/8/2014)

Taking care of his own.  Her [Cindy Archer's] hourly salary is $54.34 an hour. That's an 11.7 percent increase from the $48.62 per hour she was making previously as the office's administrative services director and 31 percent more than her predecessor, Gail Zaucha, earned.   Zaucha left the post in March. 

Archer was one of Walker's top aides when he was Milwaukee County executive.

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Your Scott Walker "campaign group: missing links.  (11/22/2012)