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.
Well if the people knows your a gambler no need to stop it why? because no matter what if you stop or not the tag is already there, people never forgot where you are before , the thing that you need to do is to establish a credibility, that even if you are a gambler, you can assure them that you will not use the money of the people in gambling , but since they already know you as a gambler , they will still say something that what are people made , be yourself and never fake people and your good .