Congressional candidate and Honolulu City Council member Tulsi Gabbard says that banks are sinking to a “new low” by allegedly illegal foreclosing on thousands of active duty military families.

In an essay for the Huffington Post, Gabbard wrote that her own experiences in the military — Gabbard twice deployed to the Middle East with the Hawaii Army National Guard — make her passionate about the issue. 

“I would not only fully support existing bills to protect my fellow troops from harm from financial institutions, but would go even further and try to make it impossible to foreclose on active duty service members even six months after the return from their deployments,” Gabbard wrote.