He has become pretty media savvy in the last few days and skillfully sidestepped a question about whether he’s being paid for his endorsement of Uber.

“I’m not a millionaire and they’re not hurling money at me,” he said, saying he was using Uber cars to get to various media interviews. He had never used Uber before.

The fate of UberX, an app-based, ride-hailing service in which drivers use their own cars to ferry passengers, remains in limbo in the St. Louis region. The St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission and Uber are embroiled in competing lawsuits.

On Sept. 18, 2015, the taxi commission voted to allow ride-hailing services, but it required drivers to be fingerprinted and possess a Class E Missouri commercial drivers license, also known as a chauffeur license. Those terms are dictated by a state law specific to St. Louis and St. Louis County.

That same day, Uber launched UberX, even though drivers had not met the requirements set by the taxi commission. UberX has operated in defiance of commission regulations since then, saying that it conducts its own thorough background checks and that fingerprint checks are too onerous for its drivers.