Ok you are gambling just for fun, your friends and neighbors knows that and a friend invited you to his party to be one of the candidates as a councilor and campaign will start in 6 months, now, of course, you need to have a good reputation, will you stop gambling just to have a good image this coming campaign and how will you defend yourself if accused as a gambler.
Many those people in the world are judgmental and we cant removed it in the mindset of those people. But the only way or solution that we can make is to PROVE THEM WRONG because they have a mindset that if you a gambler your just want only a money thats all and if you want to run as a counselor or any positions in politics they already thinking that youve used your position to collect all their money, so that as a gambler you only thing that you can do is to prove them wrong like construct or think a program that will benefit the most of all your scope so that their negative thinking will change into positive, so push for it.