They will take what they can get when it comes to a salary. Ortega... sure he lowered it... To be strictly logical, those two statements are incompatible, if Ortega is included in "they", as it is clearly implied that he is. You can't take all you can get and at the same time take less than you can get.

It seems pretty evident that Ortega is a long way short of perfection, which is something he shares with politicians in general, and indeed with people in general. But in this particular matter of taking a pay cut there is is something that deserves to be emulated by others in the same line of work - and the fact that it undoubtedly will not be deserves to be noted, and should diminish their moral, standing (though in some cases that might be pretty hard to do).