The github code repository... If the Classic hardfork were to succeed (not that that's gonna happen), Gavin/Toomin would have the greatest access to the proverbial "steering wheel".
Exactly. However, some of the 'forkers' tend to try and divert attention from this and statements that there is 'no control'. Someone is in control of the main repository though. Neither Gavin nor Toomin deserve to take up that position in any way.
Gavin has no more authority than you do.
I think what he meant was influence. Gavin has a decent amount of that (some are even blindly following Classic just because of him). However, I don't think that this is the right thread to discuss this.